A "How To" Guide for the WCT Reader

How Do I Browse Using the Table of Contents?

How do I return to the table of contents?
There are two ways. The longer method is to go to the Home page and click on the button marked Read contents. The quicker way is to click on the (blue underlined large print) title at the top of the page that follows the heading "Currently searching". For example, in Screen 1,

... "Currently searching" is followed by A Collection from G.K. Chesterton. Click on A Collection from G.K. Chesterton and you are taken to its table of contents as in Screen 2:

What are those magnifying glasses to the left of some entries in the table of contents?
Click on one and see! You will be shown a page in the ebook that is currently open. That page is the first one after the heading or subheading where you clicked in the table of contents. For example, if you click on the magnifying glass to the left of Lepanto in the above illustration, you are shown Screen 3:

This is the first screen of Chesterton's poem, Lepanto.

What are those plus signs to the left of some entries in the table of contents?
Some lines in the table of contents are preceded by a plus [+] sign in a box. If you click on a plus sign, the page is redisplayed, now with details showing within the heading that you opened up. In general, a [+] sign is clicked to get more detail.

Sometimes the lower level heading is something boring like "Subheading A" or "Subheading J". Those are inserted in some cases where a heading (chapter or whatever) has a lot of pages, and you might want to return to a point part way through.

The lack of either plus signs or minus signs beside a heading indicates that heading stands alone. For example, in the above illustration, both the poem Lepanto and the biographical sketch on George Frederick Watts have no internal divisions. In either example, click on the magnifying glass to read the entire document, one screen at a time.
What are those minus signs to the left of some entries in the table of contents?
A minus sign is not a plus sign that didn't make it. Rather, a minus sign is a signal that the subheadings can be closed down. A minus sign is clicked to reduce detail. Try it when you find a minus sign within a table of contents.

Another way to reduce clutter in a table of contents is to click on the (blue underlined large print) title at the top of the page that follows the heading "Currently searching".
How is browsing different from reading?
In reading, you start at the beginning of an ebook document, open the first page, read the next page by clicking on Next, and repeat until you get to the end. Reading is sequential. It is like listening to the music on a CD-ROM from beginning to end.

To browse is to start at some point that you want within an ebook, and read some portion of one or more pages. Then you jump to some other heading or subheading, and glance over some portion there. Browsing could be termed "random access", in other words, moving from one thing that interests you at that moment to something else a little bit later.

The interactive table of contents in a Words Close Together ebook is the tool that enables you to browse at your pleasure. The ability to switch from one ebook to another in a few mouse clicks adds to the ease with which you move about and browse in the ebook.
How do I browse in an ebook?
Put it all together: Click on plus signs until you see the heading or sub-heading where you want to start. Then click on the magnifying glass. Whenever you wish, you can return to the table of contents, usually by clicking on the title at top of the page, then browse to somewhere else in the same ebook. You also have the alternative of switching ebooks at any time; just click Home, then Switch.

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