"A number of “blog-to-book” services like FastPencil and Blurb, let you import your WordPress blog and turn it into a printed book."

Just above that I read that I could use all pages. If I use all pages, do I still have a blog? Can I use a "blog-to-book" service with all pages?

I don't mean to get far afield from this thread, but how I design the page titles in the Table of Contents may have an impact if I decide to use something like "FastPencil later.

… I am confused about linking the second child to the first. …

As I said, my idea looks a little "odd" because of the extra line break between "Chapter Eleven" and “Goering and Hitler.” They are only visually linked to each other (and it looks a bit clumsy). They are both equal child pages of "Table of Contents—Part 2."

"Chapter Eleven" is there only to be seen as a sort of title above “Goering and Hitler” because you cannot force a line break where you would like in the page title on your menu.

Yes, using a page based website for your book makes sense. A book by its nature is linear: chapter one, two, three…

But writing a book? (which I have never done) It's a creative process. When I start a project, what I thought at the beginning is not the way it finishes because as I work I discover new ideas.

My brain bubbles around and can feel disorganized. I like the extra structure which you have with categories and tags. When I write something and tag it I can go back to that tag and see what else I've written on the same topic—or I might discover that I've ignored a topic by mistake or didn't consider at the beginning. I think of tags and categories as a very flexible outline, not so linear as the outline process we learned in school.

Of course, you need both linear thinking and bubble thoughts. Does that make sense?

I'm working on a page-based wp.org site for my job and my thought process began with weeks of experimenting with various themes and the menu structure. It's live now and I think our Board of Directors will like it. It was a creative process and I wish now that I'd made a private blog to use for keeping track of the dozens (hundreds) of elements which went into making it. Much cleaner than the piles of post-it notes on my desk!

So my answer about whether a page based site is better than a post based site is: both.

So you would make a custom link that doesn't link and call it "Chapter Eleven." Make that a child page of "Table of Contents—Part 2."

Also make "Chapter Eleven “Goering and Hitler” a child page of "Table of Contents—Part 2" (below the "Chapter Eleven" page. Then change its label to just “Goering and Hitler.” (Obviously this page would have the link to the page.)

It makes your drop down list a little neater, but you'll have the extra line break between "Chapter Eleven" and “Goering and Hitler.”

Thanks for your input, Fred

Thanks, Fred