Thread: Will E-Books Change The Way We Handle The TOC?
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Old 07-03-2011, 05:25 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The device must support it, yes, but there's no obligation on a book creator to use it; that was my meaning. Neither a Mobi file nor an ePub HAS to have a TOC, but both CAN have one.
This is true, but because of Amazon, ePub now has two ToC. The internal one we don't want and we don't need and we should never have and the external ToC that we do want and we should have and we may need.

The conversion software that convert from ePub to Mobipocket botches the conversion from toc.ncx to an internal ToC. Thus, publishers are forced to have an internal ToC. This is clearly wrong and Amazon is to blame for the bug in their conversion software.
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