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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:50:17 -0500, Jay Morris    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 4/15/2025 11:10 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >> Depends on how it is organized.   
   >>    
   >> If it has a TOC listing each book at the front, and each book has a   
   >> link at the end (or the start of the next book) back to the TOC, then   
   >> it might be useable. I might even skip the "list the titles and check   
   >> them off" route in that case.   
   >>    
   >> But if it has a TOC listing each and every chapter in each and every   
   >> book, then it is likely to be much harder to use. A list of the titles   
   >> of the actual books might be very helpful so one at least has some   
   >> idea of what it contains.   
   >>    
   >> But if the TOC is clearly a merger of several TOCs with duplicate   
   >> copies of some books, or if it has no TOC at all, or a TOC that has no   
   >> links back to it, then things can get very dicey [1].   
   >>    
   >> I suppose, worse came to worse, one could go through it   
   >> screen-by-screen and Bookmark the start of each book. I haven't had to   
   >> do that yet, but who can say what the future holds?   
   >>    
   >> [1] Thus, my Dumas omnibus turned out to have not only two copies of   
   >> /The Man in the Iron Mask/ but also an essay of the same title   
   >> presenting Dumas' theory of who he was (which can be discovered by   
   >> reading the novel, BTW/ -- part of a separate collection of essays on   
   >> various crimes, some quite interesting, others less so.   
   >   
   >Checked the sample read for the TOC. Major heading is type: The Great    
   >Pioneers of SF, The Lost Worlds, The Utopias and Dystopias, Space    
   >Adventures and Operas. Under that is author then each book. Each is a    
   >link.  So...   
   >   
   >TOC   
   >  The Great Pioneers of SF   
   >   Jules Verne   
   >    Journey to the Center of the Earth   
   >    Twenty Thousands Leagues under the Sea   
   >    etc..   
   >   
   >There's a TOC link on each author, book, and chapter page that takes you    
   >up one level.   
      
   That should work quite well.   
      
   One omnibus of not-in-copyright books (I think Haggard) had such links   
   (highest level was series), even though it consistently used "Table of   
   Content" as the link back up to the next highest level. This worked   
   quite well, spelling error notwithstanding.   
      
   Being me, I pronounced that to myself as it if were an abbreviated   
   form of "Table of Contentment". Because to feel contentment is to be   
   content.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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