Thread: Official words WRT where the book should begin?
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Old 08-09-2014, 06:42 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by davidnwelton View Post
It's pretty obvious that Amazon and company want to start the book off where the contents begin. I've never seen them say so, though. Do they support and explain that decision somewhere?
Amazon only explicitely says in the Kindle Publishing Guidelines that it supports TOC and SRL (start reading location) guide items/landmarks navs:

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3.5.1 Guide Item Guideline #1: Recommended Guide Items

The Kindle platform supports guide items for defining the cover, the table of contents (TOC), and the start reading location (”Go to Beginning”). Do not set the start reading location to a blank page.
Amazon does not recommend adding additional guide items to the OPF file, because they will be grayed out in the menu options and may cause customer confusion.
IMPORTANT: Guide items, especially the TOC guide item, do not replace the table of contents.
As for the SRL, it appears that the KDP tools occasionally ignore them. For more information, see this thread.
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