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Old 10-31-2011, 03:14 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by K-Thom View Post
This is Amazon's strategy. "No frills, no diversions, go to the text, young man".

This is why they also never had a thumbnail view in the main menu. Pure focus on the main aspect: reading.
I don't think so; I think it's the old 'bug dressed up as a feature' routine, and is because the pidgin HTML which is the basis for mobi/azw just can't open the book at the cover.

It will be interesting to see what happens when and if Amazon gets round to using HTML5 instead of the secret variation on HTML 3.2 they use now. I suspect that when they start using an up to date version of HTML they'll decide that it's a good idea to open at the cover.
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