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cybmole · 10-15-2010, 05:33 AM

is there an easy way to dispense with TOC.

often-times a novel will start with a long list of hyperlinks to chapters, which I have no use for; as they also often appear as only 1 or 2 lines/links per page on my kindle, it means 20 or more page turns before the story starts.

Calibre has a " do not add TOC " option but I don't see one for removing what's already there via a reconversion.

is there some ebook "rule" that says every book has to have a TOC or can I either remove them or force them to end of book. for a novel, which I'm just going to read start to finish, once only, on Kindle -the TOC has no added value for me, it's just gets in the way of the story.

specific example - I have a lit book which I want to read in mobi, the lit source has chapter hyperlinks at start of book, I'd like to strip them out durign the mobi conversion but I don't see how to do it ?
NB when I inspect the mobi output on my kindle, I see there as a TOC at the end of the book - that's where kindle will go if I navigate via kindle's go to ... TOC. but there's also the chapter links at the beginning of the book. It would be good to only have the end of book stuff.

10-15-2010, 05:33 AM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	remove table of contents is there an easy way to dispense with TOC. often-times a novel will start with a long list of hyperlinks to chapters, which I have no use for; as they also often appear as only 1 or 2 lines/links per page on my kindle, it means 20 or more page turns before the story starts. Calibre has a " do not add TOC " option but I don't see one for removing what's already there via a reconversion. is there some ebook "rule" that says every book has to have a TOC or can I either remove them or force them to end of book. for a novel, which I'm just going to read start to finish, once only, on Kindle -the TOC has no added value for me, it's just gets in the way of the story. specific example - I have a lit book which I want to read in mobi, the lit source has chapter hyperlinks at start of book, I'd like to strip them out durign the mobi conversion but I don't see how to do it ? NB when I inspect the mobi output on my kindle, I see there as a TOC at the end of the book - that's where kindle will go if I navigate via kindle's go to ... TOC. but there's also the chapter links at the beginning of the book. It would be good to only have the end of book stuff. Last edited by cybmole; 10-15-2010 at 05:38 AM.