5 Pressbooks: importing content

While you can always build something new from scratch, importing and editing already-existing content can be an easier way to learn how to use Pressbooks. In Pressbooks, the following content-types can be imported:

  • EPUB (.epub)
  • Microsoft Word (.docx)
  • Open Office (.odt)
  • Pressbooks/WordPress XML (.wxr or .xml)
  • Web page or Pressbooks webbook (.html or URL)

Pressbooks texts can also be cloned if the author has chosen to allow it. Cloning a text creates a copy that you are able to edit.

Importing content

We’ve selected a couple of content pieces for you to try importing. Select the title you wish to import to get started.

Select your title

Click on a title below to view it. When you’ve determined which title you want to import, select (Import this).

(import this!) Português para principiantes; a Pressbooks webbook

(import this!) A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies & Applications; a Pressbooks webbook

(import this!) Student release of course materials for public availability; a Microsoft Word document (to download the file, select Editable in the Get This Book menu and then select the Website button)

(import this!) Siddhartha; an EPUB (to download the file, select EPUB (no images))

Importing a Pressbooks webbook

  1. Open your text’s Import page. From your text’s dashboard, hover over Tools and click Import.
  1. From the Import Type drop-down, select Web page or Pressbooks webbook (.html or URL).
  2. Select Import from URL.
  3. In the Import from URL textbox, enter the URL of the text you wish to import:

For Português para principiantes, enter:

https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/portuguese/

For A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies & Applications, enter:

https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/engrtechcomm/

  1. Click Begin Import.
  1. On the next page, click the box next to Title to select all chapters.
  2. Click the box next to Show imported content in web.
  3. Select Import Selection to begin your import.

Now that your content is imported, click Next > to advance to the next module.

Importing a Microsoft Word document

  1. Open your text’s Import page. From your text’s dashboard, hover over Tools and click Import.
  1. From the Import Type drop-down, select Microsoft Word (.docx).
  2. Select Choose File and select the Student release of course materials for public availability Microsoft Word document you downloaded above.
  3. Click Begin Import.
  1. On the next page, click the box next to Title to select all chapters.
  2. Click the box next to Show imported content in web.
  3. Select Import Selection to begin your import.

Now that your content is imported, click Next > to advance to the next module.

Importing an EPUB

  1. Open your text’s Import page. From your text’s dashboard, hover over Tools and click Import.
  1. From the Import Type drop-down, select EPUB (.epub).
  2. Select Choose File and select the Siddhartha EPUB file you downloaded above.
  3. Click Begin Import.
  1. On the next page, click the box next to Title to select all chapters.
  2. Click the box next to Show imported content in web.
  3. Select Import Selection to begin your import.

 

Now that your content is imported, click Next > to advance to the next module.

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