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Originally Posted by AlexBell
I'm sorry, DiapDealer, I don't understand what you are saying. The ebooks I produce either have a Coverpage.html file which goes first in the toc.ncx file and first in the spine section of the config.opf file, or have a coverpage section as the first part of a Frontmatter.html file, which again is first in the toc.ncx and content.opf files. But the mobi ebooks still don't open at the cover.
Could you give me a little more detail please about how to make a mobi format book open at the cover?
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I'm terrible at describing the process, so I'll just attach a sample of what I mean. The sample is a snippet from a public domain work (the words
and the art), so there's no copyright infringement going on.
The sample is a Sigil built epub. If you just drag & drop it onto the Kindle Previewer's main window (or feed it to kindlegen and load it into K4PC or on a Kindle) you'll see how the MOBI opens to the cover art (terrible as it is!). It will also go to the cover when selecting "Go To->Beginning".
If you use calibre to convert it to mobi, you'll need to tweak the reference in the guide section of the opf (before converting) to get it to open at the proper point.
Change the following reference:
Code:
<reference type="text" title="Text" href="Text/coverimage.xhtml"/>
to:
Code:
<reference type="start" title="Start Here" href="Text/coverimage.xhtml"/>
Hope that helps!
EDIT: I've attached the mobi as well, for those who may not use epubs or sigil when building mobi's. Just unpack it with mobiunpack.py to see what's going on.