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Originally Posted by Jamestoo
... and find that sometimes the cover does open first.
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No, you haven't seen a MOBI book open to the cover first. The Kindle/MOBI format does not allow the cover to be displayed as the default opening position.
You have be deceived by books that place an additional image that matches, or is very similar to, the actual cover at the beginning of the body of the book. If you use the Kindle's "Go To" function to go to the actual cover and then advance forward into the body of the book all will be revealed. You will see that there is a second image displayed that is the match to the cover. It may be at the very beginning of the book or there may be some titlepage, or such, displayed before you get to the second cover-esque image.
Personally, I prefer the book to open like a traditional paper book, to the title page and that that title page be the very first thing in the body of the book. Alternately, it could open to a frontpiece image of the classic type (an illustration of an event in the book and
not a dupe of the cover). This allows a single back page action to reveal the actual cover full screen.
As it is with traditional paper book, the cover is to be viewed
before opening the book as part of the book selection process. Placing the second copy of the cover image in the body of the book increases the file size unnecessarily.