Alright, let's read 3.4.1 together:
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The Kindle platform supports landmarks nav elements for defining the cover, table of contents (TOC), and start reading location (”Go to Beginning”). Do not set the start reading location to a blank page.
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Was it so difficult to write instead:
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The Kindle platform supports landmarks nav elements for defining the cover (epub:type="cover"), table of contents (TOC) (epub:type="toc"), and start reading location (”Go to Beginning”) (epub:type="bodymatter"). Do not set the start reading location to a blank page.
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Please observe that "start reading location (”Go to Beginning”)" does not mean anything w.r.t. EPUB 3 specs.
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Amazon does not recommend adding additional landmarks nav elements to the OPF file, because they will be grayed out in the menu options and may cause customer confusion.
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Alright, but I am not expecting kindlegen to break down if I specify other elements in the landmarks, especially without warning about the failure of creating the shortcuts (#2)...
EDIT: BTW, I have just sent an email to Amazon KPTools, reporting this issue. Just to say that I am not complaining for the sake of complaining, but I just would like to work better, without second-guessing things that should be written black-on-white in the official documentation.