Children of Dune terrible in ePub

[PieOPah]

Personally I saw nothing wrong with the look of the page...

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Very few paperback novels have a TOC, but there's no reason not to add one to an eBook, even if it is just "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", etc. Especially useful for the "classics", where one might want to look up a particular chapter reference.

Children of Dune would have around 64 "chapters"... Personally, I don't like TOC's that span several pages...

(I also checked the other 5 books, they would have around 50 "chapters").

In the Dune novels you can make some sort of chapters as you have those short quotes (assuming each quote would start a "chapter"). But I also have a book that doesn't even have that... It's a completely chapterless book. The only way the book is divided is by using empty lines between sections. How would you "chapterize" such a book?

[HarryT]

You probably wouldn't. Books without chapters are not terribly uncommon. "Robinson Crusoe" doesn't have chapters, for example - it's just one long flow of unbroken text - although some modern editions do break it into chapters.

[PieOPah]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

It's a completely chapterless book. The only way the book is divided is by using empty lines between sections. How would you "chapterize" such a book?

Most Terry Pratchett books don't have chapters. You could I suppose use the paragrah seperators to denote a chapter (* * * - dunno what they are actually called!) if you really wanted to. Personally I never use a TOC unless it is a book of short stories!

[sirbruce]

Yeah, what are those called? And I always use * * * * *.

[wallcraft]

I find chapters very useful in books that include multiple story lines from different protagonists, because if I am rereading and don't want to follow all the story lines I can skip to the next chapter (if there is one chapter per story line). This works well using FBReader because it has a skip to next section (next TOC entry) key. Waymarks on the Kindle 2 probably work similarly. On the desktop an always displayed TOC could provide a similar capability provided it keeps track of where you are in the book.

[HarryT]

I don't know what its official name is - or even if it has one - but I always refer to it as a "scene change", which is what it conventionally designates.