[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Nigelinspain

Hi Hitch,

Thanks for getting back and sorry for the confusion. This is not for a client but only a test after a clients job didn´t go according to plan.

Well--and don't take this as directed at you, personally, but I do say this to everyone who comes through here with problems that are this...fundamental--really, you ought to know these things, if you are charging people for work making ebooks. The anchor tag element has been outmoded for at least a year at Amazon, (and "text" has always been the way to indicate the start reading location in ePUBS) even though it works in books made from Word, but that's not what we're discussing here. Moreover, using the Guide to indicate the SRL in a Kindle book has been used since the old days of MobipocketCreator. "Start" as a named tag has been used in Word files for upload for the last few years.

Firstly, no I didn´t add "text" in the OPF to indicate where I wanted the book to start - I think I wrongly added it to the view page as I would do for the cover.

I don't understand what you mean here. What do you mean, you added "it" to the view page, please? Do you mean you inserted what used to be a named anchor, and has now been replaced by an id, in the HTML of the relevant page?

Secondly where there is a breakhere, that indicated a new chapter, or file, altogether.

Actually, that doesn't help me. There's a very real difference between a "new chapter" and a "new file altogether," and that's exactly the question I was asking you. If you have new sections or chapters, all inside the same HTML file, you'll have to set the start location one way; if you have separate HTML files for all these elements, you'll set it another way. If the "Book Starts Here" page is its own file, open the semantics menu and mark that page/file "Text." That will add it to the OPF for you, and should work when you generate the book in KindleGen (remove the "start" ID tag, if this is the case). If, however, the "Book Starts Here" page, for lack of a better word, is in a file with other pages--say, all the frontmatter togeter--then you'll need to leave the ID tag in place and set the Guide item manually. Can you tell me which you have?

Hope that clarifies some things for you.

Many thanks
Nigel

Almost. With any luck, we'll sort this out for you.

Hitch