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Old 01-24-2014, 05:00 AM   #3
Simon_M
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Hi Steve! Your cover image should indeed be in an XHTML file, and placed as the first item in the <spine> with linear="no".

Kindle software won't pick it up from there, though, it will get it from the <guide> at the bottom of the OPF, where one of your lines should be something like:

<reference type="cover" title="Cover" href="xhtml/cover.xhtml"/>

If I recall correctly, in the case of fixed-format (KF8 fixed-format specifically), any non-linear spine items appear at the end of the book, and there is no way around that that I know of.

The cover.xhtml file itself can be styled using a responsive percentage height (or width for landscape shaped books), which will be ignored by Kindle but maxxed out to full page size anyway (a bug, in essence, but handily gives the same result).
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