Thread: SET READING LOCATION IN SOURCE - How do I do that?
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Old 05-11-2013, 06:33 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by townsend View Post
Thanks! I was wondering about that as well.
n.b.:

This may not work if you attempt to set the SRL ("start reading location") before the html.toc file that appears in the mobi files, assuming you are discussing distribution through Amazon. Just be advised--Amazon's default will be to set it to the first full text page after the Table of Contents.

We had a rather large argument about this with them shortly after the first of the year about this; they made a change to the PW (Publishing Workflow) that may change the SRL after the book has been uploaded--after you've pushed the 'save and publish' button--so that the SRL in the book that is actually for sale may very well be different than that which you uploaded, even if you tested it by downloading the preview file. The only way to determine whether your SRL is correctly set or not is to download the actual file for sale, via purchase. There's no way to test this pre-sale.

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