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Originally Posted by shall1028
As the current replies to this thread seem to be a) replies to replies to replies, b) full of "I think it was mentioned", and c) quoted text exceeds new text, perhaps it's time to say no one here is going to sway any one else to their opinion and it's best to let the thread die?
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While I thank you kindly for being so sensible as to the expenditure of my own time,
if you don't mind, I'd like to be able to see DaleDe's response to my question about which KG is being used, and what cl settings, for a toc.html to be built from an NCX at Amazon. What he's said is new information to me, and I should like more data.
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Originally Posted by Notjohn
There is much that is comical in the Guidelines, but this one is especially rich, worrying about "a customer paging through the book from the beginning," when Amazon does its level best to PREVENT customers from doing that. The average reader never sees the cover when he opens the book, never sees the TOC or title page, and never sees the perhaps vital information in the prologue etc.
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I suspect that this was in response to Calibre mobis, about 5 years back. At that time, it was very common for the Calibre conversion to put a TOC.html at the REAR of the book. And you know quite well, nj, that the PG are rather hoary. ;-) And the front-matter SRL location, kiddo, has naught to do with how the progress calculation is calculated, whereas the TOC
is used for that purpose. Surely you can concede that one is a matter of disgruntlement for a single person, the author/publisher, and the other quite possibly a cause for disgruntlement and dissatisfaction for many (the readers). If you step back and look at it, the "rule" makes perfect sense--ironic or not.
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Ummmm... I regularly see the cover page in preview...if the book has one (I keep getting some books with just a plain graphic which is really annoying)...it may require me to scroll up if the book has a "start here" tag embedded...and, of course, if those particular pages are specifically hidden for a preview there's nothing I can do about that. I always assumed there was a step in the submission process where the author/publisher could select which pages to display?? I would be moderately shocked to learn that Amazon willy-nilly hid pages.
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Sorry-what's "just a plain graphic?" Not following you there.
Vis-a-vis publisher selecting which pages to display: ixnay. Nyet. No. Not so. Not at Amazon, B&N nor even iBooks. It's decided for them. At Amazon, it's the first ~10%. 5% at B&N, I believe, and I don't know at iBooks.
With regard to "willy-nilly hid pages," if you mean in the LITB, no, they don't. If you mean that the SRL (Start Reading Location) is deliberately set after the front-matter, yes, they do.
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