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Old 02-12-2015, 05:56 PM   #179
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Originally Posted by nanourbina View Post
I know this is a somewhat dormant thread, but I'd like to detail how I solved this exact issue.

When emailing my kindlegen-produced MOBI file to a Kindle Touch or a Kindle Fire HD, the book would open to somewhere in the Table of Contents, instead of to my Prologue. I had, of course, specified the Prologue as the "text" item in the guide in the opf file. Selecting "Beginning" on the Touch also went to the middle of the table of contents.

As it turns out, my problem was caused because I was using an HTML file as the Cover page (which only referenced the JPEG file). I noticed that kindlegen was complaining about it. I then changed the opf file to only reference the jpeg file and the problem went away (this had to be done in the metadata, in the manifest, in the spine, and in the guide).

Just one more data point in case someone runs into this as well and you happen to have a cover as an HTML file.
We don't make books with html cover pages in them; we build our MOBIs from kindlegenned specially-altered ePUBS, with the OPF pointing at the cover.jpg (or cover.xxx image file). That makes no change to the SRL that we've found.

FWIW.

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