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Originally Posted by gmw
Thanks. That does raise the question of how to handle the table of contents for such books. Unlike Brunner's work (and my previous novels), I don't (currently) expect to have actual chapter titles in this story, just the chapter number and character name.
I happen to have James Patterson's "When the Wind Blows" in paperback and can see that it does NOT list the chapters in the front matter (as I would expect), but on Amazon I can see his Kindle edition lists chapters at the front as:
One
Two
Three
...etc...
In my case the TOC would probably appear something like:
1. Carla
2. Matt
3. Ruth
4. Carla
5. Matt
...etc...
Is this what readers would prefer to see in ebooks, even though it will span several pages? (It seems a little redundant to me, since the ebook keeps my place anyway.)
Note: Metadata chapter selection would work as normal, I am asking here about whether the TOC should show in the front matter (which Kindle normally jumps over anyway, but not all EPUB readers).
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IMHO the number is the important part, the chapter title is just icing
I have recently read a couple of books with TOC's just like you show. No prob
