Random piece of advice for nonfiction writing: Make the TOC your abstract. If it doesn’t tell your story in miniature, there’s something wrong with your structure. 

If you don’t have chapter/heading/etc. titles for some reason, put dummy ones in and read it that way. And consider adding them in, if you can, but the improvement in structure is worth the work, even if they never see publication. 

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 @b69056a4 When I was very young, my father taught me to look at the table of contents to get a sense of direction for the book.