Newspaper style ToC in ebook

gourav · 08-03-2014, 02:20 AM

When I use the fetch news feature of Calibre, the ToC that is displayed on my kindle is divided into two halves, the left half of the screen shows the sections and on selecting any section, the right half shows the articles inside that section.
Is there a way to design this kind of table of contents for ebooks?

I have a book with 25 chapters containing over 500 sections. I need to link each section with the ToC which is resulting in a very long ToC spanning multiple pages. So if I could make a newspaper style ToC, it would be much easier to navigate.

theducks · 08-03-2014, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by gourav

When I use the fetch news feature of Calibre, the ToC that is displayed on my kindle is divided into two halves, the left half of the screen shows the sections and on selecting any section, the right half shows the articles inside that section.
Is there a way to design this kind of table of contents for ebooks?

I have a book with 25 chapters containing over 500 sections. I need to link each section with the ToC which is resulting in a very long ToC spanning multiple pages. So if I could make a newspaper style ToC, it would be much easier to navigate.

a 2 column mode is fraught with issues., which may be why it is not supported.

What happens on a 3 inch screen? KISS, just make a single column and avoid those kinds of (tablerelated ) issues

kovidgoyal · 08-03-2014, 12:34 PM

No you cannot create periodical formatting for normal books. And note that any book you send through amazon's personal document service automatically gets its periodical formatting stripped, so you cannot rely on it anyway.

gourav · 08-08-2014, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

And note that any book you send through amazon's personal document service automatically gets its periodical formatting stripped, so you cannot rely on it anyway.

I could always side-load to prevent that.

Can the limit of 100 articles be bypassed while downloading news content from a website?

kovidgoyal · 08-08-2014, 01:53 AM

There are no limits, read the API documentation for the recipe class and you will see how to increase the default 100 articles per feed limit.

08-03-2014, 02:20 AM	#1
gourav Member Posts: 14 Karma: 132 Join Date: Aug 2014 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 7th Gen	Newspaper style ToC in ebook When I use the fetch news feature of Calibre, the ToC that is displayed on my kindle is divided into two halves, the left half of the screen shows the sections and on selecting any section, the right half shows the articles inside that section. Is there a way to design this kind of table of contents for ebooks? I have a book with 25 chapters containing over 500 sections. I need to link each section with the ToC which is resulting in a very long ToC spanning multiple pages. So if I could make a newspaper style ToC, it would be much easier to navigate.

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08-03-2014, 12:34 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No you cannot create periodical formatting for normal books. And note that any book you send through amazon's personal document service automatically gets its periodical formatting stripped, so you cannot rely on it anyway.

08-08-2014, 01:53 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There are no limits, read the API documentation for the recipe class and you will see how to increase the default 100 articles per feed limit.

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