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Originally Posted by democrite
Hello,
From what I recall, when it comes to publisher provided EPUB3s, most of them have a separate NAV doc plus XHTML table of contents. I'm not sure how most are dealing with such; I prefer to not see the NAV when scrolling through an EPUB, whether at beginning or end. The situation is common enough, perhaps there could be a built-in option to combine them and make the NAV text hidden? Some publishers provide files as such but I think it's fairly rare.
I haven't checked if there is such a plugin. Since it's common enough at least with files provided as such, I think showing both is not very elegant, and having it built-in rather than as a plugin (either way at first), as I would perform such with pretty much every EPUB3, skipping the plugin dialog and having it done with one click would be very nice.
Perhaps with converting to EPUB3, there too could someday be an option to add it to the XHTML toc if one exists. Certainly any of the above I could manually do, though as editing could be many long hours of clicking and mouse movement and typing, any reduction such that it just works and is easy via one command, just as with any other built-in functions, I think would be ideal. I have perhaps thousands of EPUBs as such and merely being able to open them, select some command, save, then close would be terrific.
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NAV is part of the ePub3 specification. You have to have it to have a valid ePub3. What you don't need is the HTML ToC. That's not part of the specification.
When scrolling though an ePub3 eBook, you won't see the NAV ToC. You will only see the NAV ToC when you use the option to view the ToC. ion the software you are using. Think of the NAV ToC as an external file that only gets called when you call for it.