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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Because you see the cover when looking at your list of books.
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(On the hardware Kindle at least) you don't see the cover at all when you have the library in list format, as I do. And if you have it in grid view, you only see a thumbnail.
Since Kindle brings you back to the last page you were at, if it did open at the cover that would only be once. It's not like you have to click past it every time.
Though IMHO most covers designed for colour look pretty crummy in greyscale at whatever size; still I want to see it and find it annoying when I open new book I have to click back and back until I find the cover.
But I admit, after working in publishing for 25 years, what I usually do when I first get a book is to assess how it's put together, whether everything is there and working, before I can relax and think about actually reading it.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
moved the Prologue past the TOC, so that the sequence went : Cover, title page, other stuff, TOC, Prologue, Ch.1...and that works.
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The prologue is usually an essential part of the book, in fiction especially. "A long time ago in a galaxy far away..." and so is effectively Chapter 0; I treat it like that and always put it after the TOC. If untitled, I might not list it in the TOC though. For an ebook, I would, just to be sure it isn't ignored. An introduction by someone else than the author can go before the TOC, if just fluff, or more likely after if it's a more substantial one.