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Originally Posted by JSWolf
A lot of people I've talked to feel the same or similar about internal ToC in ePub. Why do you think it's a good idea to go backwards with the ToC?
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Well it is not backwards, just different.
1. Sometimes the printed TOC is different text or different levels than online TOC. Some internal TOC's even include short descriptions.
2. The external TOC only displays one level at a time for multilevel for most readers and perhaps the user can use the internal TOC to see a full perspective of the book and it may be easier to scan through with more lines per page.
3. In addition some folks want to preserve the printed book to the extent possible. Others are also making a mobi book and they want them to be similar.
4. ePub 3 has adopted a pure html approach for the TOC using ol, li syntax so it is easy to have both using the exact same document. I do not see an internal TOC as doing any harm, it is easily skipped.
5. A few readers don't do multilevel well for the external TOC anyway thus making the internal one a good option.
6. External TOC doesn't use embedded fonts, while the internal one does.
Dale