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Originally Posted by sikm
Is there a way to get books that I read on my Kindle open at the cover? At the moment they all seem to open at the, subjective, start of the book. I use Calibre and feel that there might be a setting that I've missed.
TIA
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well, I always asked myself why most of KF books didn't open at cover.
cover is a first thing we see on a book in a bookstore or a library.
(for me, next is a end cover with book summary - usually) so I even studied
old mobipocket format and there were some guides but not much helpfull.
almost by accident, a solution opens
and yes, there is - an easy way
always worked for me (K3, K4 NT and PW now)
1. convert your book to epub
2. use Sigil as epub editor
3. If your book had a cover you should see in a Sigil a first file part named titlepage.xhtml (this is your book cover, check it)
4. right click on it - choose "Add Sematics" -> "Title Page" from drop down menu
5. save epub
6. import it in Calibre and convert to mobi/azw3
7. send to Kindle
8. ta-da - your book will open (first open only - of course) at cover
if you are more adventurous you can inspect epub's content.opf <guide> part what is going on with section tagging
(if you have azw3 you can use Calibre's Tweak Book and edit metadata.opf in <guide> part at the end – an edited line should look like this:
<reference href="text/part0000.html" type="title-page" title="Title Page"/>
whole trick is to change "Cover" to "title-page"
this procedure is not tested, I always use epub as start point)