Books are a way to relate pages with one another in a hierarchically cascading chapter/section arrangement. Strictly speaking, our CMS doesn’t support chapters or sections. There are only book pages, and links to ancestor pages. But we can easily create data structures which resemble chapters or sections, so it is very useful for us to use these metaphors.
In a book, each page may have children (i.e. “child pages.”) Each child may itself have children. So to create a chapter or section, merely make a page (the chapter), then attach child-pages to it (pages in the chapter).
Chapters/sections are merely pages with children. As such, it is possible to put a great deal of text into a chapter page. Be careful about this as too much text may obscure the chapter contents. Chapter and section pages should be very succinct, generally no more than a short paragraph. Put the bulk of your content in the pages of the chapter or section.
One approach to books is to limit, as far as possible, each page to a single topic, then organize related pages into chapters or sections. Be forewarned that you can easily carry this too far, creating a complex and difficult to navigate hierarchy. Striking the perfect balance between the total number of pages and amount of text on a page is more art than science. Fortunately, you can edit and rearrange.
With well chosen titles and divisions of content, it is possible to create an extremely accessible layout for your content.