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Originally Posted by jimad
What I suggest Calibre does on EPUB to MOBI conversion is to understand the difference in the conventions used by the EPUB vs MOBI "communities" when implementing the OPF specs and automagically converts the EPUB NCX structure to a OPF TOC. This "works" but gives an "ugly" TOC -- one that has more detail than one would typically expect in a hand-written TOC.
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This is largely because publishers are incorporating too much in their NCX to start with. There's no reason to have separate navigation entities for the title page, dedication, copyright page and all the other fluff that makes up the front matter. It's just bad practice on the part of the person creating the ePub.
When the Amazon doc tries telling people "It is generally a good idea to place an HTML page with a table of contents at the beginning of the book" I just despair -NO NO NO.