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I'm not technically minded, and I don't use specialist ebook software. I create an ebook the only way that I know, from RTF to HTML, then by Calibre to whatever format I need. I did a few Edgar Wallaces that way for the Library here.
My layout in HTML is cover pic at the top, title, author, first pub date, any dedications or epigraphs, then a typed list of contents, then Chapter 1 begins. I don't bother with section breaks between chapters.
I hyperlink link the chapter numbers in my typed text table of contents to the chapters in the text. (This is tedious if there's 60 chapters, but my experience is on websites, rather than books, and it's the way websites work.)
Then Calibre generates the ebook with a ToC at the end. My books look clean and simple to me, because I understand them. (And I haven't a clue what an NCX is!)
Those of you who use specialist ebook software will no doubt be aghast, but to me it's dead easy and suits me.
If I was to try to make my own version of a book with no formal chapters, like say most Pratchetts, I would divide the text into 10 or 12 approximately equal sections, creating untitled and invisible pseudo chapters. I would have a Contents table that simply numbered 1 to 10 or whatever, just as an aid to flicking through, because I like that facility.
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