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Originally Posted by Oxford-eBooks
I've noticed that Kindlegen will barf if I don't include TOC.xhtml in my eBook. So I've been putting it in with a nice table of contents for years. A client wants to NOT have a contents page in his MOBI and I was wondering if anyone has happened to come across a workaround.
I could have simply had blank or 'other' content on that page to effectively hide it, but that kind of breaks things a little, and I'm really aversed to hacks.
I could put it as the last chapter in the eBook, but then I run into the one automatically put into the MOBI and we end up with two.
Thoughts?
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You may wish to alert your client that if s/he is widely read, s/he may expect to receive a KQN for not having a TOC in short order. The more widely-read an author, the more likely it is to receive a reader complaint, and if you don't have a TOC, Amazon is likely to actually remove the book from sale, for NOT having one.
This happened to a client of mine, so I speak from experience. (Not like I didn't warn her). Mroeover, she actually HAD a TOC--it was called "Cast of Characters," and it linked to each of the character-vignettes in her book. It was linked correctly from the Guide, etc.
Nonetheless--
one customer complaint and Amazon removed the book from sale. if his/her issue is the front-matter and the LITB, tell him/her to put a short TOC at the front, like Patterson, and put the full, linked (and linked from the Guide) TOC at the rear.
Other than that, your only alternative is really to just do the Patterson thing. The title and "Start Reading." but, again, be warned: Just because Patterson gets away with it doesn't mean your client will, depending upon who s/he is.
Hitch