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Here's my rant: Table of Contents. They are generally all garbage
The worst are Project Gutenberg because they are scraped from the HTML.
Even for Shakespeare they can't manage a clean hierarchy.
The root of the TOC should be the name of the book.
Nothing under that should repeat the title.
Got a title page? Don't call it "A Tale of Two Cities", call it "Title page". What would you call that in a printed TOC anyway?
Also, use normal capitalization. If somebody wants ALL CAPS they can do that themselves. Making proper capitalization out of caseless text is very difficult.
My reader has the footer with the chapter and page. If the TOC just has "Chapter LVI", I use that. If the TOC has "Chapter LVI In Which I Am Born" I prefer to display "LVI In Which I Am Born" as space is limited. This is just a presentation bit and is not a complaint about what is in the TOC.
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