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complicated TOCs pretty much mean something other than a novel or text that you read through from beginning to end - which is going to put it outside of the Kobo's strength in any case.
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Yes, that's what I'm beginning to realize- the kobo is for reading something cover-to-cover, it's no good for reference materials. But still, it would be great to be able to at least turn to a
section of a book so I could read that part beginning to end. Complicated TOC's could also mean very large publications, like anthologies or omnibus editions of an author's works.
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Curious though, both of these examples are books that I think really aren't best served through epub renderings in any case:
For the Bible, I can picture an iPad app that allows you to find passages that illustrate particular teachings, organize daily readings for you, look up references and maybe have the passages tied to a giant gallery of artwork through the ages that are related to them. That kind of stuff.
Same thing for a cookbook. Turn it into an app that organizes menus, finds dishes that feature a particular technique, ingredient, sauce or cuisine. Allow you to keep notes on how a dish turned out when you made it, possible changes and tweaks that you've done.
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Yes and no. I can see where functionalities like you're describing would be useful, but for myself, I wouldn't need fancy organizing or interactive capabilities like that- I want to just be able to
read certain parts of whatever it is, to be able to go to those parts. I wonder how difficult it would be to allow for at least two levels of organization in the TOC? It doesn't even have to be more than that.
Oh, and from what others have said in the E-book forum, it seems other ereaders do have that capability. Whoever posted that King James bible specifically made a multi-level TOC for it for easy navigation, but the Kobo isn't recognizing it.