Re: Kindle boxed set

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:50:17 -0500, Jay Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.me>
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.'"