Exporting transparent pages for the iPad

Confusing.
Baffled.
So bear with me as I attempt to explain what I'm so earnestly trying to figure out is even possible; and if so, how to do it..
I'm attempting to export an epub for the iPad that contains images [without a background] from Photoshop. In Photoshop, the layers build on top of one another. (Think of physical transparencies printed out with different images and as they stack on top of one another they build a conglomerate image)
So in theory, I want to export these pages from InDesign as transparencies, that when the page is turned on the iPad, you can see through it as the images stack on top of one another.
It seems confusing to me because of the front and back of each page in InDesign.. It's like dealing with two pages instead of one. For example, in a facing pages layout, if I had an image on the 3rd page [lets imagine that's on the right in the layout], would the 4th page [on the left] be showing the transparent side of the 3rd page? I just want it to be read as a literal transparent page [the 3rd and 4th page conglomerate] that you can see through to the 5th.
Is this possible? Do I need to set a certain transparency option in InDesign when I export?
Or is this just not feasible..
Please help.
I'm lost.
Thank you

You're saying you want your epub to look as if it's printed on transparent acetate? I don't do epub, myself, but I don't think that's going to happen.If it were possible, you'd have to specify an opaque page (the equivalent of a piece of white paper) for all "normal" pages to keep them readable, and that's just something ID is not set up to do.
ID simply doesn't care what sort of stock you print on. What is on the page is what will output to the medium on which your doc is printed (ID is first and foremost an application designed to make layouts for print). Nothing is genreated in terms of background other than what you yourself might add. A PDF is theoretically has no additional white background, but Acrobat displays one so your desktop doesn't show through. I imagine the same thing happens with epub readers. If no background is specified, the reader provides something.

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