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Originally Posted by gdgibson
That's actually a huge help, thanks. That's the tack I'll take.
Still, it bugs me. I've never done it and never had a client ask about it before, either. And of course the cover is always available in the ncx. But I have seen (and had the client show me) at least two TOC's with a "Cover" entry. And of course, there's the issue of my "cover" entry working on the Voyager (where the link works like a sort of javascript pop-up, and presents the cover image in an inset window with an "x" button in the top right corner to close it). I wonder if it's a feature that's somehow managed in-device?
Again, though, I'm comfortable with saying it's not a common practice.
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Hi:
Duh...(slap myself in the head), it's working in the Voyage because when you click the "Go to TOC" menu, it
*also* pops up the Go To Cover item at the TOP of the TOC. However, the Cover isn't actually IN the Table of Contents. It's a function of how the Voyage works. I wasn't thinking last night, when I said that I didn't know "why" it was working. I reminded myself by slapping something on a Voyage, and remembered that "yeah, that's how that works."
Which two books? Which two books did your client show you that had "Cover" in their TOC? I mean, if you think about it, 99%, it
has to be from the NCX, because who on EARTH would put "Cover" in a typed TOC? I don't think we've
ever done it here, and as I said, we just pushed out something like our 3,011th book. So...??? Are those Indy-pubbed books, or is s/he assuming that (like on the Voyage) a function of the Go To options on Kindle is displaying something that's actually not in the TOC, but is on the Go To Menu?
I will say--from a not-ebook perspective, but from a layout/typography/publishing perspective, it would be incorrect to put the Cover in a Table of Contents for a print book. Yes, eBooks have different functionality, witness the Go To functions; but generally, it's
just not done. I know that sounds stuffy and all that--but s/he ought to be advised that it isn't.
@NJ: how were you coding your frontispiece? Was it the first thing that kindlegen "saw" as part of the book, sans the cover?
Hitch