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Originally Posted by Hitch
Well, this seems at best peculiar. I don't see how non-functional file links, in a book, can work, if they are broken, unless the PW (Publishing Workflow)creates some sort of Kindle (Amazon_specific) redirect sort of thing, but again...never seen this. Bizarre.
We are discussing the toc.html, right, and not the NCX? (Just to narrow down the discussion). And, can you advise, @Darryl, do you think you are seeing this in MOBIs that are built from an ePUB-like structure (multiple files, one per section/chapter, using a spine, etc.) or are they Word-file uploads, with a single HTML file, arguably, for the entire book?
Hitch
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It is peculiar. As I said, my knowledge of TOCS and EBook structures is too limited at this stage. You seem to be much more familiar with the topic than I am.
I have seen a number of different examples but we are probably better to concentrate on the book I mentioned for the moment. If you are sufficiently interested, it might be a good start for you to download it and confirm my findings. This would eliminate the possibility that the problem is peculiar to my setup or that I am missing something. The download link is
http://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Trilogy...exodus+andreas. It is free of charge and also of DRM. Alternately, if you wish, given the cirumstances, I don't think there is a problem with me emailing you the file for these purposes.
I have both unpacked the azw3 and examined it in the Calibre editor, and there is no sign of a toc.html file. There is a toc.ncx only.
For this book at least, there seems to be only one html file for the entire book. From memory, this is also true for at least most of the other instances I have seen, so you may be on to something there.
This is not a large or urgent problem. It affects very few people and even then just causes a little inconvenience. But it is, as you say, peculiar.