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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The external ToC works very well for "giving an easily read list of the several titles included in the collection"....
The way you suggest means we have to go to the external ToC to then have to jump to a page in the book to then jump to someplace else. ...
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You seem to have totally misunderstood my posts. I'm sorry if I worded them poorly.
- I am not suggesting that the "inline" ToC be in any way a replacement for the "proper" ToC.
- I am not suggesting that the "proper" ToC be in any way reduced or abbreviated so that jumping to the inline Toc is ever necessary.
- I am not suggesting that the "inline" ToC necessarily has active links; its having them is merely added functionality.
What I'm advocating is that omnibus editions and collections of short works have a secondary title page in the form of a list of the included titles, the "contents" of the edition, and that this text exist in the primary flow of the book just following the main title page. This way the reader encounters the list without having to even know the book is a collection and without having to take the several step action required with most readers to access the "proper" ToC.