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JeremyR · 12-18-2010, 11:53 PM

I just bought a couple more books from Fictionwise just now (50% off sale). But like the previous ones I've bought, after every chapter there is a line that says

[Back to Table of Contents]

Is this standard practice on their books? I thought maybe it was just the publisher (as all my previous books from there were all in the same series - the Ethshar ones by Lawrence Watt-Evans).

But the two books I just bought were from different authors and publishers. But they have the same sort of formatting.

It's in the mobi versions and epub (I guess they use the same source - epub?)

Is there any reason why they do this? Is it an epub thing that epub readers automatically ignore? (I know I haven't seen it in epubs from Baen at least).

Anyway, it's not that big a deal to go in with Sigil and remove it and make a new ToC and convert in Calibre. 5-10 minutes maybe. But still, I just am curious why it is like that in the first place. Surely I can't be the only one that is annoyed by that at the end of a chapter...

12-18-2010, 11:53 PM	#1
JeremyR Guru Posts: 973 Karma: 2458402 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: St. Louis Device: Kindle Keyboard, Nook HD+	Fictionwise Formatting - [Back to Table of Contents] I just bought a couple more books from Fictionwise just now (50% off sale). But like the previous ones I've bought, after every chapter there is a line that says [Back to Table of Contents] Is this standard practice on their books? I thought maybe it was just the publisher (as all my previous books from there were all in the same series - the Ethshar ones by Lawrence Watt-Evans). But the two books I just bought were from different authors and publishers. But they have the same sort of formatting. It's in the mobi versions and epub (I guess they use the same source - epub?) Is there any reason why they do this? Is it an epub thing that epub readers automatically ignore? (I know I haven't seen it in epubs from Baen at least). Anyway, it's not that big a deal to go in with Sigil and remove it and make a new ToC and convert in Calibre. 5-10 minutes maybe. But still, I just am curious why it is like that in the first place. Surely I can't be the only one that is annoyed by that at the end of a chapter...