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Originally Posted by enarchay

How exactly do table of contents work on Kindle?

You open a book, hit Menu, then hit Table of Contents. (The TOC is inside the book, so sometimes you can just page forward to it. Or sometimes you start inside the book after the TOC, and have to page back to it. But by using Menu you can always get there, if it has one.) You go to a page which lists varioues entries, generally chapters. You use the 5-way controller to arrow down to the chapter you want to jump to and click on it, like a hyperlink.

Originally Posted by enarchay

Do all of the books you buy through amazon come with a table of contents, or how do you navigate the books?

No, not all books (Amazon or otherwise) come with TOC. That's entirely up to the publisher whether or not they format their book with a good TOC.

Originally Posted by enarchay

For example, I don't want to have to do a million page flips to get where I want.

Sometimes you have to do exactly that. Yes, it's annoying. You can always return the book for a refund if you download it and find it's not formatted to your liking.

Originally Posted by enarchay

Moreover, when you convert PDFs, does it retain the table of contents or automatically add one or what?

My understanding from other threads here is that TOCs do get converted if one exists already in the PDF, but perhaps not always. I don't think it's smart enough to automatically generate one. PDF conversion is tricky so it probably depends on the PDF.

Originally Posted by enarchay

Is there a way to skip ahead by more than one page at a time?

Not on the Kindle 2. (Except via TOC or hyperlinks that take you to a specific place in the book.) There is a way to move 10% at a time on the Kindle 1, but that feature is not on the Kindle 2 for some unknown reason.

Originally Posted by enarchay

Can you view files in landscape mode?

Not on the Kindle 2, but you can on the Kindle DX. (I'm speaking about text. With the unsupported image viewer you can view pictures in landscape mode.)