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Set START, for point where book first opens #2399

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Many Kindle users wish that a book file would open to the cover instead of at 
Chapter One. Here's a discussion: 
http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThrea
d=Tx14RCY14LP1OUS

This CAN be done if you go to the .OPF file and change
<reference href="Text/cover.html" title="Cover" type="cover" >

to

<reference href="Text/cover.html" title="Start" type="text" >

and then add an id="start" attribute to the image tag in the cover file.

However, it jacks up the TOC. TOC is greyed out in the "Go To" menu (and from 
any toolbar, if one exists on the device).

Can there be an error-free shortcut to setting the START?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jillmont...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2013 at 9:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Kindle's use the Mobi/KF8 format, not EPUB.  Sigil allows you to edit the OPF 
however you want.  What exact values to use for Kindle though are up to Amazon 
and better on a discussion at MobileRead.

Original comment by daveheil...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2013 at 4:21