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Originally Posted by bfollowell
Now that I know I can fix this by manually editing the opf, I have no problem, until I go back into Sigil and edit an epub for some reason. If I do that, Sigil removes my start page definition. I'm not really sure why but it does.
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It does that because "start" isn't an accepted reference type for the Guide section of the OPF, according to ePub standards. It's not a Sigil problem.
See there for accepted values:
http://idpf.org/epub/20/spec/OPF_2.0...htm#Section2.6
It's because of this situation that I started using the "preface" reference type in my ePubs to set the opening page. But it didn't work as planned for the Mobi conversion. I opened a thread when I faced this problem a while ago:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=130969 Didn't get the answers I wanted, but I noticed that now my Calibre-converted mobi always open on the "Title page" (semantics set in Sigil) on Kindle. No idea why it doesn't work for you. Only thing I see different from my current files (compared to the one I'm talking about in the thread) is that I never used again "page-break-before: always;" in CSS after that. Maybe it is related?