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Originally Posted by mattmc
If this is were a new development, I'd be curious what happens if you try to set it before the TOC?  |
Well, I never tried that, because I put the TOC first, followed by the title page, for two reasons. First, I'd like the book to start at the beginning, which in a real book is the half-title page, but I know that's impossible, so I would like it to start, thank you very much, at the title page.
And second, I'm not allowed to start with an image, because the included cover will suppress it. (I've tested that, too, with this book.)
Perhaps I should explain that I've decided to follow Mr Knopf and Mr Doubleday and Mr Penguin and use an image of the print title page in the e-book, to avoid its being split in the Look Inside and to force better design on it. Also I've noticed that the Look Inside suddenly seems to have followed the old Kindles and DX in ballooning images to their maximum size--i.e., Look Inside too doesn't obey a width= instruction.
In my experience, if "text" is set anywhere but the first page of the first chapter, the book will open in the middle of the TOC. Which is pretty funny, really, if the intent is to beat the KU scammers, since it adds a couple pages to every reading experience.
Incidentally, I don't think it's true as has been posted here that a second "reading" of a book adds to the KNEP or whatever it's call, the page count. Nor do I believe anyone is making $70K a month playing these games, unless it's the guy selling the system to the marks.