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Chris Jones · 11-03-2013, 10:48 AM

I am loading freshly downloaded books into calibre and I notice that when I hit "V" to start the viewer I am more often than not taken to what looks like a random spot in the e-book, often somewhere near the end.

So I have to click the TOC button, select whatever is closer to the beginning of the book and hit TAB repeatedly until I am positioned right at the beginning. Then, I can start paging down and do a quick evaluation of the e-book.

I can live with that but I have a few questions:

Why is this happening?

How does e-reading software keep track of the "current page" and where is the information stored?

Is there a quick way to reset the e-book to "0% read" in calibre?

Is there any way I could bind a keyboard combo to toggle visibility of the TOC?

Since this happens immediately after the initial download and therefore the very first time I access such epub's in calibre, am I somehow inheriting the last spot the e-book's creator was on before he uploaded the e-pub (which sounds unlikely) ... or is it purely random..?

11-03-2013, 10:48 AM	#1
Chris Jones Addict Posts: 242 Karma: 37089 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: none	Keeping track of the current page I am loading freshly downloaded books into calibre and I notice that when I hit "V" to start the viewer I am more often than not taken to what looks like a random spot in the e-book, often somewhere near the end. So I have to click the TOC button, select whatever is closer to the beginning of the book and hit TAB repeatedly until I am positioned right at the beginning. Then, I can start paging down and do a quick evaluation of the e-book. I can live with that but I have a few questions: Why is this happening? How does e-reading software keep track of the "current page" and where is the information stored? Is there a quick way to reset the e-book to "0% read" in calibre? Is there any way I could bind a keyboard combo to toggle visibility of the TOC? Since this happens immediately after the initial download and therefore the very first time I access such epub's in calibre, am I somehow inheriting the last spot the e-book's creator was on before he uploaded the e-pub (which sounds unlikely) ... or is it purely random..?