Book Chapter in serialised chapter format

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Has anyone been able to feature book chapters in their Ghost publication?

I’m interested in writing an ebook, where I can showcase each chapter. I’m wondering what is the best way to go about it?

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If you mean you want to have a post per chapter, that’s fine. One thing to keep in mind is that Ghost’s default sort order is by date published, the newest first, and your book is going to want to be in chapter sequence. so either publish in a date order that presents posts in the order you want, or do some custom routes to change the order: Change the order of posts in Ghost

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I’m currently using the Hakone theme to write chapters of a book. The great thing about Hakone is that you can see the full post contents on the homepage.

You can see the Hakone theme here as an example:

Here is my personal WIP book with Ghost and Hakone:

You can set the order of posts from oldest to latest as mentioned, which is what I have done on my site.

The Hakone theme documentation provides info on how to do that (under General > Order Posts from Oldest to Latest)

(Thanks to @ahmadajmi for adding those steps when I requested on how to do that too! He can also provide more info on Hakone as the theme designer)

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Thanks! I’m glad it worked for you.

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Thanks @jonhickman @t1-tracey for those links.

I’m trying to design a unique book page featuring links to each chapter for easy navigation. I’m currently exploring various user-friendly approaches to accomplish this. One option is to create a single landing page listing all the chapters, but this may not provide an authentic ebook reading experience.

Are there examples of book/chapters using ghost I wonder?

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There is a recently released theme by Raki which might be suitable too:

If you click on each book, you can see the list of chapters and so on.