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Old 01-13-2016, 03:59 PM   #1
schubi77
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Device: Kindle D01100
conversion to azw3 with cover showing in Kindle

Hello folks,
I am trying the whole day to reach this:
See the cover when opening it on Kindle for the first time.
In detail:
I am writing a book and its ready and fine.
I convert the openoffice odt file via calibre into an azw3 file
and load the converted book via USB to my kindle D01100.
But when I look at the book to check the result of my doings it always
starts behind the cover, not showing the cover itself.
I would have to push the previous-page button to see the cover which I feel
as a bad way when a user looks first time at the new bought book.
This seem to be a universal problem because I found the mentioning of
this eefect several times in the internet.
Now I try the solution.
I want to tell Kindle via Calibre to take the cover as starting point for reading.
Calibre itself offers the option to do this during conversion with the argument:
Start reading at (XPATH-Expression)
Does anyone know if this gives a solution for the problem and what I would
have to write there?
I got already the basic line which says:
//h:a[@name='start'] which works if I write "start" into my document.
But how to do this with my cover picture?
Maybe anyone has a good idea for me...
or any other good hint (but please no workaround with two pictures etc.)
Thanks in advance
schubi77

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