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Originally Posted by Trane
oh, how I hate TOC!! So glad future projects will be plain old fictional novels. No pictures, no TOC, no headings beyond H1... my god it sounds like a dream!
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On Amazon, every book requires the HTML TOC.
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Originally Posted by Trane
After trying the split method I don't think it will improve the reader's experience in the case of this particular book...
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but at least they won't be turned off from buying the book in the first place with 10 pages of TOC. ??
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I don't see any reason why someone would get turned off by a large TOC (unless the TOC clearly displays horrendous writing skills).
What I typically do in these cases is leave the HTML TOC as a shorter one:
Part > Chapter > Subchapter
That should be granular enough for the normal reader... And then I leave the internal TOC (NCX) as the full TOC... but it depends on each book.
Take the Chicago Manual of Style as an example. It has 5 pages of TOC:
Part > Chapter > Subchapter
but the internal TOC is immense, dealing with 5 levels:
Part > Chapter > Subchapter > Section > Numbered Subsection
Part Two: Style and Usage
- 6. Punctuation
-- Hyphens and Dashes
--- En Dashes
---- 6.78 En dash as "to."
---- 6.79 En dash with an unfinished number range.
If your book is organized as well as that, "Hyphens and Dashes" is a perfectly acceptable jumping off point.