TOCs?
What do you folks think about a table of contents for an e-book?
How about a hyperlinked TOC?
In my first books I made up TOCs and in the e-books I hyperlinked the TOC.
But that was when I was doing the whole works: e-book and print on demand.
And I was writing academic papers with hyperlinked TOCs.
These days, I've simplified things. I'm only writing Kindle books. I'm also using Word 365 and I'm not that practiced with it.
So: Is it worth it to put a hyperlinked table of contents in a Kindle e-book? What do you think, readers? Authors?
Also: Anybody with experience with Audible?
I've never been a fan of audible books, but now that I'm having vision problems, I can see why audible books might be really valuable to someone with severely impaired vision.
So: Writers out there: Do you publish with Audible? Why or why not?
How about a hyperlinked TOC?
In my first books I made up TOCs and in the e-books I hyperlinked the TOC.
But that was when I was doing the whole works: e-book and print on demand.
And I was writing academic papers with hyperlinked TOCs.
These days, I've simplified things. I'm only writing Kindle books. I'm also using Word 365 and I'm not that practiced with it.
So: Is it worth it to put a hyperlinked table of contents in a Kindle e-book? What do you think, readers? Authors?
Also: Anybody with experience with Audible?
I've never been a fan of audible books, but now that I'm having vision problems, I can see why audible books might be really valuable to someone with severely impaired vision.
So: Writers out there: Do you publish with Audible? Why or why not?
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Erik
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Jan 10, 2026 12:07PM
I always include one in my ebooks, but never actually use it when I’m reading an ebook that has one. 😊 Since tools like Kindle Create let you automatically add one that Kindles use, I guess it’s not super important to add an html one explicitly, but doesn’t hurt to have one. One thing it’s good for is to give the reader a quick summary of the scope of the content.
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In any case, such a table of contents makes a review easier.
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