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Originally Posted by cybmole
it it is for other folks to read, giving them one 300+page chapter with no table of contents navigation points is not ideal.
I hate reading books where there are no tagged splits that I can pause at/ jump to.
if it's only for your own use then no issue
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I've purchased several books (full length books--even from BPHs) that had no chapters--neither named nor numbered. Just scenebreaks. As such, the toc was mainly for stuff like the dedication, acknowledgements, epigraph, and such. Normally such a format is going to be found in fiction/novels--my point is that chapterless books (or books with very, very long and relatively few chapters) aren't all that unusual.
It's a shame epub can't accomodate this stylistic choice without either a) introducing unwanted page breaks, or b) running the risk of using files that are considered "too big" for standard practice/optimum performance.
Sure, a page break between scene-changes may be minimally invasive, but still... if it's unwanted in certain situations, the format probably needs to evolve to accomodate it.
Ah, well. Probably another discussion for another forum.
