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Old 12-08-2011, 10:10 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Tango Mike View Post
To Toxaris and theducks:

Thanks for your help and giving the dunce a break on the question . . .

My novel (paperback and eBook) is for sale at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple iTunes, Smashwords, and BooksOnBoard. Since the eBook can potentially be read on any of the e-reading devices and personal computers with Kindle and Nook for Mac/PC and Adobe Digital Editions, and the internal TOC function can vary depending on the device, I decided to include a manual TOC in both the mobi and epub editions so that the reader always has convenient access to it.

If you are looking at a chapter heading anywhere in the novel, you can with one move reach the TOC and with one more move navigate to any other chapter. I don't own an e-reader, but from what I understand, using the TOC function on a Kindle takes more actions than on a Nook or iPad. But rather than include the manual TOC only on the mobi version, I built it in the source Word document that I converted to both mobi and epub.

I think it's a nice feature, and yes, I agree that it's also somewhat redundant. Or maybe I'm just a little masochistic and like creating more work for myself.

Thanks again to you both for your expertise and willingness to help the novice.
EPUB has great to fair TOC support natively

The K4nt:
menu: goto: (arrow navigate to) Table of Contents: enter :/ Select: Enter


My PEz (Mobile ADE):
Guide button: (only 8 items shown per page) Page fwd/back: Item #

Calibre viewer: click on Show TOC button: click on list

ADE
Click 'show Navigation pane: click item

Calibre will create a TOC for Mobi based upon the NCX.
No need to jump through hoops
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