# eBook Add-on **URL:** \ **Category:** Labs\ **Created:** [April 15, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271 "2020-04-15T18:14:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![rhubarb](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/rhubarb/32/964_2.png) [@rhubarb](https://discuss.write.as/u/rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271/84 "2023-08-20T10:33:16Z")
@matt asked: > What do you think so far? I think, that eBook export is too buggy to be useful. > What would you like to see next? Compliance with [W3C specifications](https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub/), especially resource locations. Images [must be stored within the container](https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/#sec-resource-locations). > Our goal is to make this add-on into a full eBook creator, with just enough customization to be widely useful, but not so much that it becomes unwieldy. In order to become useful without any customization, this add-on should at least be able to reliably export words as a standard-compliant EPUB file. IMO the default eBook export should focus on words first, images second and other content last. I would be happy, if it exported just the words, but in a standard-compliant and meaningful way: - omit images and other media (or replace them with external links) - add basic bibliographical data to the cover page like URL and date of creation - add basic bibliographical data to each chapter like URL and date of publication (design for blogs as default use case) - apply W3C [EPUB accessibility recommendations](https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11/) The whole point of EPUB export is having a self-contained file, that can be read offline on any standard ebook reader. “Type words, put them in ebooks.” 📖 ---
**Author:** ![sfsspace](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sfsspace](https://discuss.write.as/u/sfsspace)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271/85 "2023-08-26T15:09:23Z")
Thanks a lot @rhubarb ---
**Author:** ![davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/u/davepolaschek)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271/86 "2024-01-19T17:18:33Z")
So I’m getting closer to having my book going on write.as and if ePub were to work, it would be pretty swell to have that available. But it sounds like there’s still work to be done. @matt Has there been any progress? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/u/davepolaschek)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271/87 "2024-02-08T03:13:26Z")
Tap tap tap. Is this thing on? ---
**Author:** ![davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/u/davepolaschek)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271/88 "2024-02-27T12:43:37Z")
@matt any update on the ebook plugin? I have my book up at [https://meadmadeeasy.info/](https://meadmadeeasy.info/) but have some page-ordering issues I’m not sure how to fix. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271/89 "2024-02-27T23:21:03Z")
Hey not so far, unfortunately. Some of the issues brought up earlier by @sfsspace and @rhubarb will take a varying amount of effort to fix, and I don’t have the bandwidth for it at the moment. But I do want to polish up this feature as soon as I can. As for those issues @davepolaschek, what problems exactly are you having with page ordering? ---
**Author:** ![davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/u/davepolaschek)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271/90 "2024-02-28T03:18:02Z")
Ok. When it’s ready, I’ll likely be a customer. As for the page-ordering issues, I used the “novel” format, and then later discovered I missed a chapter. When I added it, it was appended, and I probably need to go edit things somehow to get it to present in the correct order to someone visiting the front page (or presumably getting an epub once that’s ready and I pay for the feature). ---
**Author:** ![suitbertmonz](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/suitbertmonz/32/2494_2.png) [@suitbertmonz](https://discuss.write.as/u/suitbertmonz)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271/91 "2025-07-17T10:22:07Z")
I see this posting with a long history. But I do not get my write.as-blog exported as epub-file so far. Images and links are gone. Text seems to be ok. Any ideas? [Previous page](https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271.md?page=4)