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Originally Posted by sherman
The reason I didn't include an internal TOC or hyperlinks was because on the PRS-505 it takes almost as long, or longer to select the correct link and activate it as it takes to just jump back to the external TOC.).
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Yes understood, the external TOC is very fast. And even faster on the 600 because of its faster processor.
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Originally Posted by sherman
I agree that an internal TOC would become far more useful with the touchscreen ebook readers.
Good luck creating your version 
EDIT: Hmm, just looking at your TOC idea, would you mind if I end up borrowing it (or something similar) for mine?) |
Absolutely, its actually a very simple idea and just requires one more level of TOC.
I only go to chapter level, but I have got a more complex scheme but was not convinced I really needed to go that far, i.e. right down to verse level on the TOC. I have seen some very bit ePub Toc's take an eternity to load. And one on a free TNIV I downloaded completely crash my 600 because they had all the references in the TOC!
By the way it was the downloading your version of KJV and playing with it on a PC, taking the ePub apart and trying my new TOC idea - that was my justification for buying a Sony reader - so Thanks
You can download XML format bible text from here:
opensong
And then its a small hop to write a XML to ePub converter.
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Originally Posted by sherman
Also, I don't know how the PRS-600 manages large ePubs compared to the 505, but speed is an important factor. It should be split into as many xhtml streams as possible - I ended up having a separate xhtml file for every chapter in the bible. And be careful when you build your toc.ncx file - you should reference the file itself and no more. Don't try to link to a specific spot in an xhtml file unless it's absolutely necessary (eg: verses).
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Yep I only go down to chapter level at the moment. I also combine verses together when appropriate for an easier read.