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Originally Posted by sheygetz
While on my Sony a new epub will open to the cover, when converted to AZW3 it will open to the TOC on my Paperwhite.
Most of my AZW3 files are converted by Calibre, not Amazon-bought ones. Is it possibel to change this behavior in general for the epub to AZW3 conversion process? Or only by editing every single file (which I wouldn't do, too much hassle). Would a conversion to mobi instead help any, i.e. open to the cover?
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It is possible to trick all Kindle models since K3 to show cover on first open.
(as Kovid mentioned)
Can't be auto function of Calibre but is very easy if you are converting from epub.
And existing AZW3 can be edited with Calibre.
"Cover" you get will not be full screen - it will be like any book picture with margins all over it (on Kindle go left of it to see a full size cover) but it is OK for me and every my book in last 2 years now opens on cover.
I already wrote here about epub to azw3 with cover open:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...64#post2588764
Editing existing AZW3 will require import of skeleton cover.html page with SVG structure, editing it with your cover picture data and then adding in metadata.opf in <guide> part following:
<reference href="text/cover.html" type="title-page" title="Title Page"/>
(With Calibre editor of course, after save&quit calibre will properly rename html parts)
And yes, it is really crazy Amazon software team can't understand that everywhere we go first we see on a book is a cover, front and back.
But that is just a fraction of their strange ideas.
If I have knowledge I'll add right click menu option in Calibre book editor "Start book with this picture"
