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Originally Posted by Algiedi
I found the solution to part #2 of my problem (making the Kindle recognize my "hand-made" TOC as such) by chance while browsing a completely unrelated thread (seriously, does this only happen to me?).
But the reason I was asking whether Calibre has a sort of "add 'Chapter' to all entries" function hidden somewhere was precisely to avoid the manual tagging of all chapters - whether by adding anchors or titles.
But I'll try Sigil anyway. Even though I'm not gonna make epubs, it's bound to come in handy.
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I too have a Kindle. I've never found any reason to use any editing & creation tools other than Sigil and Calibre. As far as I'm concerned, it's impossible to beat the Sigil/Calibre one-two punch. If I'm converting from another format, I convert to epub and edit in Sigil. If I'm creating from scratch, I start in Sigil. I get everything perfected, just exactly the way I want it, then do a final conversion to mobi with Calibre.
As far as how to have different text show up in the toc, that's really easy. Most ebooks use the "h" tags to setup toc entries. As part of the tag, add title="whatever text you want to show up" and that text will be displayed rather than the actual text you see on the screen. It works the same if you want to use an image as the chapter header but have text show up in the toc.
If you're toc is a simple, one layer/linear toc, just use the Sigil toc editor and "h" tags and Calibre will automatically create the toc for you upon conversion. If your toc has multiple or nested levels, you should probably create a proper toc file in the ebook but, again, that's pretty easy after you've experimented and looked at some other ebooks to see how it's done.
I hope this helps a little. Let me know if you need any more assistance or advice. I'll be glad to pass on what I've learned if I can.
- Byron