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Originally Posted by HarryT
I can see that a TOC is useful for a book you want to look stuff up in, but really for normal fiction that you just start reading at the beginning and go through to the end it is (for me, at least) completely unnecessary. RTF is my preferred format for the simplicity of being able to create content in "Word".
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With a table of contents, there is very little need for the Reader to support searching. The Reader does keep my place, so I can come back to where I left it, but there are times when I will come back to a book and want to enter it at a different place than I left it, etc.
I also make use of chapterization to put shorter works together as if they were a single book. Since we have no other way to organize content on these things, that seems like a reasonable solution to that problem.
Creating PDf content is as easy as using a word processor would be -- I have SED scripts that convert text files pretty reliably to LaTeX and there are tools that convert well formatted html to LaTeX, so PDF is a slam dunk to do. I don't see any downside to PDF on the reader if I format it correctly. LRF would be better if I had the tools, but I don't.
Here's an example of one I converted from Gutenberg (I did spend some time getting footnotes, etc. right.)