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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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That's a rather different statement to "the Mobi format uses exactly the same way of defining the location of the TOC that ePub does" - which is wrong.
The problem is that the .mobi format relies on the html defined in the guide rather than taking on the (pretty trivial) burden of managing navigation itself. It makes it easier for ebook technicians to be lazy - I use the term 'technician' to denote the lowest class of data operative here, because that's who it seems publishers generally use to create ebooks.
I'll agree that the problem is shared. It's possible to produce semi-decent books in the .mobi format, but it's easier to produce crappy ones. ePub is far from perfect, but it makes it a bit harder to produce a fundamentally defective book.