Covers into TOC?

[SuzanneTF]

Hi, I'm new to all this!

So, I've been converting HTML files to EPUB with calibre. I take advantage of the custom cover feature to give my books a custom cover. However, I quickly found that it isn't just a thumbnail, but also a cover for the book (first page). This isn't a super big deal, but I was wondering how one makes the cover and title page appear in the TOC (for example, I have each chapter heading as H1 so have a lovely table of contents). But I don't know how to edit the book cover into that as it is done by calibre. I mentioned this to the developer and they told me to use Sigil or a similar program to manage it.

Help!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by SuzanneTF

Hi, I'm new to all this!

So, I've been converting HTML files to EPUB with calibre. I take advantage of the custom cover feature to give my books a custom cover. However, I quickly found that it isn't just a thumbnail, but also a cover for the book (first page). This isn't a super big deal, but I was wondering how one makes the cover and title page appear in the TOC (for example, I have each chapter heading as H1 so have a lovely table of contents). But I don't know how to edit the book cover into that as it is done by calibre. I mentioned this to the developer and they told me to use Sigil or a similar program to manage it.

Help!

That was the correct answer. Use Sigil or other text only editor to add a H1 (in your case) <h1 class="coverpagetitle" title="Cover">&nbsp;</h1>

in the CSS
.coverpagetitle { display: none; }

[SuzanneTF]

Great! That worked.

I generally use notepad when I'm editing web pages. But am finding for ebooks I'd rather be lazy and use Word, etc. I wish they would build it into the setup of the TOC somehow, but whatever.