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Originally Posted by jemkeith
Actually Terry Pratchett doesn't use chapters in his Discworld books.
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I would say, that is a big design mistake. (I e-publish, too.) Having an active Table of Contents is among the first prerequisites of a well-made e-book. (You can try switching to "Sections list" in Marvin for these particular books that lack explicit chapters.)
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Originally Posted by jemkeith
The footnotes are marked by an *.
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That is not the ideal solution, either, especially not in electronic books. It's always better to go for 100% clarity, avoiding ambiguity as much as possible. For example, if footnotes are numbered, it's easier to refer to them in conversations with readers who may not possess the same edition you have.
Generally, I find that many (most?) e-books are very badly formatted, including those commercially sold by Amazon and other retailers. Everything points to Terry Pratchett's Discworld books belonging to the bad lot.
It happens to the finest writers -- I read that Winston Churchill's e-books (and he's a Nobel Prize winner for
literature!) as sold in the Kindle format contain prodigious amounts of typos on almost every page... We're really only in the earliest stages of the e-book era these days.
