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Amazon removing ebooks with TOC at end of book
This drives me crazy because it completely screws the 'furthest read' between devices. I've complained to Amazon over and over (as well as publishers) about this. Glad to see they are finally doing something!
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Does anyone actually use the html TOC? Shari |
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That makes no sense when you are looking for a particular story, author comments or appendix comment. And as I said this is mostly irritating wrt to 'furthest read' when moving among various readers which all have different capabilities. |
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Clearly there is an issue, because Amazon is making this change.
It's for the reason I stated. |
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Older Kindles don't have an external navigation facility. The ncx is used for the progress bar and for jumping from chapter to chapter (or wherever the ncx entries are pointing to). Even in that instance, older Kindles only read the top level of the ncx.
Amazon based the Kindles on Mobipocket's software which it bought way back when. Mobipocket used the <guide> entries in the opf for a menu but even there Kindles would only recognize a few types of entries. So Kindle users have had to rely on the internal html contents page until the newer devices showed up. |
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And even besides TOC at the back of the book there and many books with Appendices or Anthologies with author bios or story comments at the back of the book and those too can screw up 'furthest page read' when moving between multiple devices (which I constantly do). |
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The actual reason for Amazon wanting the move is because it throws off their pages read count for authors in Select.
Now according to David Gaughan or Gaughran (never can remember how to spell his name), Amazon is sending notices first for authors to move their TOC. (Yes, some authors were whining about that.) I do wonder if it is only on the Kindle Select books. |
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