Hi Jim, I am afraid then all your arguments are mute. As you can access a traditional TOC as you would call it, without "jumping" to the beginning and paging to it, or you use the so called "Navigational" means. You have just given the best argument for the NCX ease of use and accessibility! As for my personal opinion I would prefer that both are implemented. Please do not forget that any time you move from reading to the TOC you are going "outside of the normal reading experience". So, using the NCX is part of the "normal digital reading experience". In light of the below mentioned, then you where wrong in using the term "telling" when you meant "point" as a link does tell you where to go (see earlier post). Thereby, the confusion. regards Keith. Am 10.12.2011 um 19:59 schrieb Jim Adcock:
So semantically, even if there where a traditional TOC, it does do tell you where to go. Pragmatically, you navigate via link, and can not move easily to this position as you would using a printed book by thumbing to the position. You could though, if supported try scrolling to this position, but you have no true means of orientation.
Sorry, but I think we are talking past each other. By a "traditional TOC" I mean something within the body of an e-book at the traditional location of a TOC which has the appearance of a traditional paper book TOC, but which has been augmented with hot-links, such that clicking on say a chapter title, or clicking on what was the traditional paper page number, results in vectoring the reader's reading page to that location. About half the TOCs one sees within PG have such hot-links, the other half are simply static renderings, or are not provided at all.
As opposed to say an NGX, which kind-of presents TOC information "on the side" IE outside of the normal reading experience of reading a book. Again, in early EPUB efforts one often saw EPUB e-books which included both an active hot-linked "traditional" TOC within the body of the book AND an Adobe Digital Reader NGX "TOC" "on the side" resulting in the appearance of two separate but slightly different TOCs in one book -- which looked stupid. With the result that the EPUB ebook publishing community seems to be heading rapidly in the direction of including the Adobe Digital Reader NGX approach "on the side" and excluding putting a "real" copy of a TOC within the body of the text -- even if the paper version of the book originally came with a real TOC in the body of the text.
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