[davidfor]

Originally Posted by leftright

I read the manual, kobo have succinctly stated that "Not all books have a Table Of contents", could this be the reason that kobo have not made the TOC menu more accessible ?.
The fact that some books don't have a TOC is to me poor eBook creation, if a pBook (paper book) has a TOC so should a eBook, especially academic books. e.g. The king James Bible has a beautiful TOC layout, try and cross reference that quickly with Isaac Asimov's dissertation of the Old and New Testaments...and no I'm no fish lover :-)

Surely a eReader should mimic the ease of browsing a pBook and enhance that experience, not detract from it ?.

There are a lot of paper books without a ToC. Most novels I have don't have them. And I have several novels that have no chapters, so any ToC would be invented.

Now, I haven't seen any non-fiction in either paper or electronic form that didn't have a ToC.

It's such a pain not being able to cross reference quickly with another chapter which isn't "next" or "previous", It's also a pain not being able to jump quickly to a chapter of choice by title.
Even a Mp3 players "now playing" screen has a context menu to quickly let one skip to a track of choice, besides previous or next.

I don't think I have seen an MP3 player that didn't make me go to the current playlist to select other than the next or previous track. I can skip to the next and keep skipping, but that is exactly the same as using the navigation bar to skip to the next chapter. And I don't think I have seen an MP3 player that would let me skip to another track other than the list and select. Choosing a track that is not on the playlist is different. They do tend to allow a search to find other tracks. But, the Kobo does allow me to search for another book quite easily.

Yet they have seen fit to make a menu for "facebook" easily accessible in a eReader.....

Every now and then someone makes this claim. But to get to it while reading, I have to do a long press on a word, wait for the menu to display, tap the link icon on the menu, tap "Facebook". I count three taps. That's the same as getting to the ToC. But it isn't because the first action is not a tap but a long press, so it is actually harder to display. And of course, most of the times I access the ToC it is actually only two taps. The navigation is what usually displays for me when I tap to display the bottom bar.

For my enlightenment, how do you propose that Kobo should reduce the number of taps to get to the ToC? While making the suggestion, remember that people don't want the reading area reduced, the interface cluttered to much or accidentally displaying it while trying to turn the page.