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Originally Posted by gmw
Thanks.
I guess I just don't like the aesthetics of a TOC like this that might span several pages. A nice TOC with proper chapter titles going over one or two pages is neat and elegant, but a simple list of chapter numbers (with or without the names) just looks a bit silly to my eye. But it does seem that some readers like to have the TOC in the front matter.
It's tempting to try and list the TOC in multiple columns to reduce the number of pages, but I'm always concerned that getting "clever" might run afoul of certain ereaders or user configurations. Anyway, I will cross that bridge when I come to it, there are a lot of rivers to cross before then.
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If you look at the TOC of many paper books you will find a lot of examples of both forms of chapter listings. Some books have chapter headings next to the numbers and some just have the numbers of the chapters. There is no right or wrong about it I don't think.