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Originally Posted by Yapyap
Anyway, yes, most books these days tend to have a decent enough table of contents, and even if for some reason your bought books start at the cover and don't skip automatically to chapter one (I'm not sure if that's a reader or shop thing? on my Kindle, both Amazon-bought and sideloaded books tend to start on the first chapter - I assume there's a publisher-specified "start here" in the books?), all that front matter is easy enough to skip completely, if one is impatient and knows it won't hold anything of interest.
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If you were to build a book in Sigil, you'd notice the ability to semantically mark a file as "Text". This gets translated by KindleGen and calibre convert-to-MOBI/AZW3 to the "Start" reference point which is where your Kindle will link to in the "Go To" link "Beginning". Which is automatically used when you first open a book.
Sometimes the publisher is irresponsible and doesn't do this. I don't think Amazon will go through all Kindle books integrity-checking for this - and if they did, they would be doing a lot more.
@bla, If you are the type to fix up your books, you could get rid of the front matter AND also fix this/set it for wherever you want.