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Sometimes when you download a scientific PDF from a company, they add an advertisement to the first page that indicates what company provided the document as well as what University the person who downloaded it was from. Well, I wanted to put a similar type of thing at the start of some ebooks (EPUBs) -- even before the cover, I meant to convey that in my first sentence. And I'm really exasperated with the level of resistance that the software has given me in my attempt at accomplishing this. The two relevant features in Calibre's editor, as far as I can tell, are the ability to change the order of the xhtml pages by dragging them up and down the list. And then there's the right-clicking a page and you have the option to set it as the cover page. I think it's odd you cn set something as the cover page, even if it's not the first one, but oh well, I figured I'd just put my advertisement at the top and set it as the cover page and I wouldn't have any problems. And that worked...provided the application I used to view the ebook was SumatraPDF. FBReader and Mobipocket reader forced the cover image to appear first! and to make things even more complicated, the advertisement wouldn't even appear at all in one of these applications -- I forget which. It literally just completely ignored the addition. And I was repeatedly opening the same files in the three different applications, so I know that I didn't make any kind of mistake. And to make thinsg even weirder, I removed one of the books from Calibre and then re-added it -- I forget exactly why I did this -- and when I re-added it it gave me an error and said it couldn't read teh meta data, so I said "oh well" and manually entered all the meta data in, and I was surprised to see that one has the option to add a cover in metadata, which is in addition to Calibre's editor. And adding a cover in metadata totally overrided all my work in editor -- this time, even in SumatraPDF.... Unbelievable...