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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
So can someone enlighten me as to how seeing where the chapters are (or being able to tippy-tap to the next/previous chapter with a button) would be an advantage to this novel reader -- who only reads books once?
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Well, obviously this won't apply to people who only read novels once, but I find that upon re-reads, it's nice to be able to flick back and forth to easily skip to a favourite section which I kinda sorta remember was somewhere around
here-ish, especially if the chapters in the TOC don't have names (or I can't remember what happens inside).
Possibly if you read a lot of short story collections flickable marks would also come in handy so you could skip past boring stories without having to hit the TOC to navigate to each new one to try and see if you liked it any better than the last.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm thinking that the main reason you don't see chapter markers in all Amazon books is the simple fact that a relatively small portion of readers really, truly give a hoot about "speed referencing".
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Personally, I just chalk it up to incompetence and/or deficiencies in the tools use to create the Mobi version.
I've got plenty of those time-limited promotional freebies from multiple stores, and often the ePub will have a proper NCX that converts to chapter marks (occasionally requiring a bit of tweaking to make sure KindleGen "reads" it right) whereas the officially-supplied Amazon Mobi (or Topaz) doesn't.
KindleGen can be stupidly picky about both NCX and OPF and won't even give you a warning if it thinks something's "wrong" with the inclusion of the former within the latter; just merrily create a new chapter-mark-free Mobi.
