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Whether a particular user wants/needs/uses a TOC is no excuse for the creator of the .mobi/.azw file to create an incorrect TOC, IMO. Mobipocket files have followed the same layout as long as I've been reading them, since, say 2000
No one has to use them, and if the creator doesn't want one, so be it. But if there is one it needs to be properly linked and at the end of the file. If there's an additional one at the beginning or at each chapter heading, etc., fine. But if your're going to provide a TOC, when you hit the menu button and choose TOC, it should take you to the correct part of the file.
There is no excuse for this, not ignorance (it's been this way for a decade or more; Pay Attention!) and not willful stupidity ("My way is better than the standard, so I'll mess everyone up so they have to read my book my way!").
Sorry, people not properly using well-documented features of ebook formats is one of my pet peeves. It's bad enough when people use undocumented features or get bloody minded about imposing idiosyncratic layout that screws up the reading experience for most of their readers, but to blow this kind of simple thing is just idiotic.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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