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Originally Posted by mjm101
However, in iBooks and in the .mobi file created by the Kindle Previewer, the book opens to the title page and does not list the cover in the TOC.
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This is as eschwartz mentioned... and I too agree with "I have no idea about iBooks."
Kindles should open where the "Text" attribute is marked:
- Right click the file you want the book to start on.
- Add Semantics
- Click on Text.
Now you can repeat 1-3 to double-check that there is a little checkmark next to "Text".
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Originally Posted by mjm101
Before I knew better, I left the 203.png file InDesign created in the epub file and never had this problem--but I had epub files that were between 5 and 7 Mbs. Now that I use the semantics menu to mark the jpeg file as the cover and then delete the large 203.png file, [...]
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What version of InDesign are you using? And what is this "203.png"? Is that filename of the "original" high resolution cover that you was created for the book?
Anyway, if you don't mind, you can PM/email me a copy and I can take a look and see if I can figure anything out. It could potentially be something annoying that InDesign stuck in the EPUB, that Sigil is not deleting.
My email is: *insert my MobileRead Username* @gmail.com
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Originally Posted by mjm101
[...] both Kindle and iBooks open to the title page and don't include "Cover" in the TOC. No idea why that is!
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Now, this may be a different beast. It could be you are missing the "Cover" in the toc.ncx file.
Side Note: I personally recommend against including front/backmatter in the TOC (either XHTML file or the ncx). I believe the TOC should easily allow you to jump around the book material (Preface, Introduction, Chapters, Afterword, Appendix, ...). You never really see "Cover", "Title Page", "Copyright page" in a physical book TOC.... and I believe it doesn't fit in an ebook TOC either.
There was some more discussion of frontispieces and other front/backmatter in ebooks in this topic:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=228927