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Originally Posted by schubi77
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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But a Fake 'not a real cover' page is the only way
Note you can reuse any image many times, so only the first page that is NOT designated as the cover can be set as Start reading.
BTW you are trying to
violate a basic Kindle
feature 
(not opening on the cover)