[pdurrant]

I don't think you should be so prescriptive about the order of things between the cover and the parts.

Indeed, in a fiction ebook I much prefer to nearly all that stuff at the back of the book, with links to it from the contents menu.

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

1. Cover (links to the first of Preface, Foreword, Part or Chapter; quick start)
2. Frontispiece (Half-title, illustration, and/or series list)
3. Front Matter (generic for pre-book junk)
4. Title Page (Title, Author, Illustrator)
5. Verso Page (book meta info page)
6. Inscription ("To So-and-So")
7. Acknowledgments ("Thanks!")
8. Preface (usually by another author/editor)
9. Table of Illustrations/Maps (with links)
10. Table of Contents (with links)
11. Foreword (comments by the author)
12. Parts (sometimes called "Books", has navigation links)
    • Prologue (has navigation links)
    • Chapters (has navigation links)
      1. Chapter Title (name of the chapter)
      2. Epigrams (quotations that open chapters)
      3. Illustrations/Images/Maps/Tables
      4. Scene Break (blank lines or "* * *")
      5. Sections
         • Sub-Sections
           • Paragraphs
      6. Pull-Quotes (quotations from the text)
    • Epilogue (has navigation links)
13. Afterword (comments by the author, has navigation links)
14. About the Author Page (pic and bio)
15. Colophon (production notes and link to cover -- "closes" book)
16. Endnotes (definitely linked and back-linked)
17. Glossary (possibly with links)
18. Index (preferably with links)
19. End Matter (generic for post-book junk)

Is there anything else I should add, remove, rename or re-arrange? Next step will be to pick tags for each piece, once I'm happy with the overall structure. Not every book has everything, I'm just trying to come up with a master structure that should serve 90%, or more, of books.

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