Thread: ebooks made with Sigil opening at different places when opened on Kindle
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Old 11-12-2016, 03:21 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by Notjohn View Post
I'm shaking my head in befuddlement, just as I did all day Wednesday.

Let me see now: I point to the image with what? The TOC? And I can right click on an image and assign a "semantic" to it? Good grief.

And this epub will be welcomed at Barnes & Noble, Apple, and Kobo?
nj: how the hell do you NOT know this? We've had this damn discussion before. I know for a fact that we discussed it on the KDP forums. I told you this in an email exchange that you and I had, some time back. ???

and NO, this has nothing to do with ePUBs for distro. For that matter, this has sweet you-know-what to do with Sigil, but...

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Originally Posted by Doitsu View Post
No offense, but for someone who has published the "Guide to Kindle Publishing 2016" your technical skills leave somewhat to be desired.
Yes, I'm sorry, nj, but I am forced to concur with this sentiment. Are you just smoking whacky tabacky? What's up with this question/series of questions? I'm surprised, genuinely, at this.

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KDP books must have an internal cover image that must be defined in epub2 books via a cover metadata entry and in epub3 books via a cover-image properties attribute. Since Sigil will automatically generate these entries all you have to do is remove the cover html file before you upload your book to KDP. (This step is necessary, because KindleGen might not automatically delete the cover.html file.)
Yes, that's what we do. For typical fiction books, simply yank the cover.html, make sure that the Cover semantic is assigned to the image, save, build mobi. Bob's yer uncle.

(Snippage)


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That depends on the apps and epub versions that these booksellers use. All fully epub2/epub3-compliant apps should display the cover image, if you generated it with Sigil. The only difference between books for KDP and other publishers is that you won't have to delete the cover html page.
Sigil pretty much does all the heavy lifting. All you have to do is dupe the ePUB, and proceed.

OR, as Diap and Doits mentioned, use linear="no" if you want one ring to rule them all. As Doits clarified, the cover.html cannot have ANY text on it, for this to work. Personally, we make other tweaks, in our "ePUB4MOBI" files, because I am picky about how this or that displays, and what works perfectly in ePUB, for ePUB readers, may not work exactly as I wish in MOBI. But that's how we roll. No reason you can't make it as simple as we've just explained.

And whatever you're drinking, stop drinking it.

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