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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Well, personally I like the idea of it opening to the first page of text.  |
I'm one of those weird bastards who wants to start at the very first page (or the cover image/page if it's first) and browse. I want to check out the dedication, the foreword, the pronunciation guide, the blurbs/praise, the epigraph--the works. I'm not in a race to get right down to the nitty-gritty. I wanna buy the book some dinner and get to know it a little before I plow right into Chapter One. I want my ebooks to open at page zero. With EPUB/Mantano, that's what I get. Every single time, without fail.
Being able to dictate which page an ebook opens to (other than zero) automatically means games can be played and wrong assumptions can be made. It's unnecessary. The Intro/Chapter One is never more than a couple of clicks/taps away for those wanting to get there quick.