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Originally Posted by Notjohn
The most recent two books I've borrowed from the e-brary are Stephen King's Finder's Keepers and David McCullough's The Wright Brothers, both from Simon & Schuster. The King book has one of those awful TOCs with 50 or 60 entries, most of which have such illuminating titles as 1, 2, 3, etc. So S&S wisely banished the html TOC to the back of the book (along with the copyright page, which is also the case in the McCullough book).
If the SLR is set to follow the html TOC, would the book actually start at the end, tee hee? (It didn't, of course, and now that you mention it, I think it started way at the front, though not the cover. Alas, I can't go back and check, because the loan period has expired.)
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NJ:
Well, there are a couple of differences here. First, that's not a book that went through the KDP, which is literally first and foremost. The "start" setting that gets placed during the PW (Publishing Workflow) for self-pubs is completely and utterly different than the PW for books that are uploaded by FTP, kiddo. Ergo, the question is moot, as it's inapplicable.
HOWEVER, as we've done a number of books this way (we have the BOB way [Back of Book], the WEE TOC [ala James Patterson], with a full TOC at the back of the book, and the BS way [Boxed Set]), and we do have clients that FTP, what I can say is no: the SRL isn't set at the back of the book. Amazon adjusts, and usually then picks the first full page of text after the half-title; lacking that, the first full page of text post the copyright page. For FTP'ed books, they do NOT adjust the SRL, not in our experience. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, of course; simply not in our experience.
Hitch