Thread: HTML TOC listed in .ncx?
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Old 03-09-2016, 04:47 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by brahms View Post
In my view the medium has changed so the form has to change. I don;t want my ebooks to look or act like print books. That's all. A ToC in an ebook that has an ncx seems needless duplication as well.
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Bear in mind that the current and prior crops of MOBI reading devices from Amazon generally don't read/use the NCX for customer view. (As we are discussing Amazon, here in the ePUB sub-fora...???) They use the toc.html. I've seen people claim that the Fire uses the NCX, rather than the toc.html, but honestly, I've never bothered to check it, and I see no real compelling reason why it would. I mean, sure, if the book doesn't have the toc.html...fine. Makes sense.

But why would Amazon--now, think about this, kiddles--in new releases of OS for the Kindle Fires, embrace the NCX, now, when ePUB3, which dispenses with the NCX (boo, hiss), is more than on the horizon? That seems stupid, to say the least, and while I find Amazon to be obdurate, I truly don't find them stupid.

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