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Originally Posted by nickredding
I don't see how this would solve anything. If you format periodicals as books, you'll lose all the periodical navigation (sections lists and article lists). You might get an HTML-style table of contents at the beginning or end of the document, but using that is a real pain compared to using Kindle's periodical naviagtion.
The periodical navigation in 3.1 isn't broken for calibre periodicals, it just has a couple of irritating issues (see my previous message).
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If we format the document as an e-book, at least we have a way to navigate between articles which is intuitive and familiar to the Kindle users:
The first time we read the document, we can go to the "Table of Content" using the Kindle menu. From the table of content, we click on an article to read. Then when one is finished, he can click the "Back" button of the Kindle to go back to exactly where he left from the table of content.
We don't have such an alternative if the document is formatted as a periodical - first, the "go to TOC" function does not appear in the Kindle menu if the document is a periodical; second, the TOC of the periodical is at the end of the document. In Kindle there is no way to go to that end directly.
The "article view", I think, is not that intuitive to the users. Kindle users expect everything can be done perfectly with the "Sections & Articles" view. Also, we are limited to 3 article titles per each page in the article view. This does not give a better overview on what is inside the section than displaying the titles as indented text in TOC.
The above are why I suggested generating an e-book rather than a periodical in my previous post.