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Originally Posted by Bas
Yes when I click the NCX and get up the menu and click it does jump ok but when I click the button next to it it says I'm missing a table of contents.
Don't you have to have a TOC table of contents plus hypelinking the index at the beginning of the book? A lot of books have that.
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You're getting that message because, in addition to the ncx that is required in mobi, you do not have an inline TOC (a typed, linked Table of Contents) that is linked via the GUIDE. In Sigil, the easy way to resolve the Guide is to use Semantics for the "typed" TOC, and then when you run that ePUB through KindleGen, (or Calibre) the Guide will be properly set up.
If, however, you don't want to take that extra step and type your own, you can either use epubfixer (I find it very unintuitive, myself, and have abandoned it) or simply use Calibre to make a "typed" inline TOC for you, as others in this thread have discovered.
With regard to the "real world usage" of the ncx, please note that most of the Kindle reading apps now actually display the ncx on a "go to TOC" click, not the inline TOC, although the Fire does not.
And with regard to the iBooks question: NO, it does not. The iBooks TOC is always, in our experience, problematic, as, for reasons best known only to Jobs-ville, uses an INLINE toc, not the ncx as the "Contents" page. Do I know why? Hell, no. The ways of the Jobbleheads are mysterious to me, regardless of the fact that we have hundreds, if not over a thousand, epubs up on that platform.
HTH.
Hitch