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I am preparing a book for ePub conversion in Indesign CC 2014. I have noticed almost all professional ePub eBooks have their TOCs reference every single page starting with the cover page. In print, you would generally start referencing from the Preface page onward. My question is, how do I reference, say, the cover page in my TOC? For instance, here's a screen grab from an eBook opened in iBooks for Mac with the drop down TOC showing entries starting with "Title Page" whereas the page being referenced has just one single image and no text at all:
Ideally, one would use the page header's paragraph style in the TOC style dialog to create a corresponding TOC entry for that page. But on pages like cover and title, there's no text, let alone page title! So how would one reference those pages in the TOC in the absence of a paragraph style?
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If the InDesign file is already in .indb format, each .indd file will be created as its own chapter in the epub file. If that's not an option, I would personally get into the HTML and make the title page and whatnot into individual chapters manually. If that's not something you're comfortable doing, you might be able to do something hacky like insert an invisible character on those pages, have InDesign break the chapter there, and also set it to not export those styles.
Also, if you're going from a print version to an epub 3 version, you can add page lists so that iBooks will refer to the print page numbers.
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I really know little about InDesign and less about desktop ebook readers for Macs.
But I know ibooks, and I'm guessing that the page numbers are calculated by the program. The TOC comes from the toc.ncx file inside the epub zip. Indesign probably auto-generates that from chapter titles.
On my title page I often link to parts inside the ebook, and even though it's theoretically possible for me to link back to it, I can't think of a situation where i would need to.
On most ebook reading platforms, the cover page is not listed in the TOC but if you go Page Back from the first page (or the title page), you can usually get to there easily.
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