Thread: Do you use chapter lists?
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Old 08-17-2012, 02:23 AM   #1
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Do you use chapter lists?
Many of the books I have done for the MobileRead library have many chapters in them - Lorna Doone has 75 - and as I do the books by hand it is a lot of work to put all their names in the Table of Contents.

I think that most of us accept that ebooks are not print books and are not bound by the same conventions, and I'd like to find out whether people actually use the chapter links in an ebook ToC. After all, every ebook reader (as far as I know) will open at the last place in the ebook read, and will allow one to put books marks in.

Please note that I am not discussing whether chapters should have their titles shown at the beginning of the chapter. I'm only trying to find out whether people actually use a list of chapter titles in the Table of Contents.

PS Thanks for the comments so far. I should have mentioned of course that I'm talking about novels or stories, not non-fiction and not anthologies.
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