Hi pdurrant - no worries, I'm sorry I'm not being clear
The structure is like this:
[My start reference; type="text" points to the htmlfile0 below]- Some introductory content htmlfile0 (Author welcome; other books; Introduction. A few pages.)
[Amazon's inserted SRL points to the htmlfile1 below - or more specifically to the first Anchor they find in the following code in 'Start of main body']- Start of main body htmlfile1
- Start of main body htmlfile2
etc
In the epub these are all separate html files.
I now have another response from Amazon (to which I replied yes):
Quote:
Hello Robert,
The Start Reading Location (SRL), as we had already stated, starts where the content begins. However if you want the SRL to be starting from the first location that is the cover image of your book, please write back to us with a confirmation and we would set the SRL to the cover image.
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Which is what epubs are supposed to do anyway isn't it? It's only Amazon that have this oddity I think?
Hopefully at least now I know what is going on, I'll be able to adjust the book architecture as needed for future books without asking Amazon to manually reset the SRL - bit tedious. And hopefully this informs anyone else looking at this.