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Originally Posted by Dazrin
By "proper" you mean your "preferred" position in the book. I'd prefer everything except the cover, and maybe a forward, go to the end of the book. Why clutter the beginning of a book with stuff we don't need? Just because that was often used for paper books doesn't mean that ebooks need to follow the same format.
Cover. Title Page. Chapter 1 -> The End. TOC. Other stuff, if they must.
We don't need the list of all the author's other books. We don't need meaningless blurbs from 14 different celebrity authors who spent 5 minutes skimming the book (or worse, some other book by the author). We don't need to see the publisher's list of "you might like ...." advertisements. We don't need a preview of the next book in a series, or any other immediately outdated "coming soon" junk. I've seen all of these (except the preview chapters) included before the actual content in some books. If they want to include that stuff, put it in the back and add it to the bookmarks. I'd rather not have any of it.
I've seen previews where they only get 5 paragraphs into the actual content before cutting off because they have so much unnecessary stuff at the front of the book. Or files that are only 75% book and 25% junk, either at the front or back, because they add so much filler.
I understand why some of those things were included with paper books and before the internet, but doing things just because "that's how we've always done them" is silly.
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I agree with all of this. That's why I delete all the filler stuff from my ebooks. Ofc it would be much better if it wasn't put in in the first place. But I guess we'll never see an ebook without any ads at all.