Thread: Kindle Irritation — Not opened at cover
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Old 08-11-2018, 04:40 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
I know it shouldn't be that big of a deal but I find it irritating that — unlike every other eReader — Kindles do not open new books to the front cover. I always try to back up to the cover (and over the author's dedication, intro etc.) and almost always end up hitting an entry in the Table of Contents that sends me to somewhere in the middle of the book.

Maybe I'm weird, but I like to read an eBook the same way I read a printed book, from the cover in. Why does Amazon assume that their readers will want to ignore all the information that often comes before the first chapter, including the cover?

I know that, in the world of gripes, this is a tiny gripe but I sure would like Amazon to offer the option to "Start at Cover."
This has been complained about for a long time in a lot of threads by a lot of people including a lot of authors. The consensus seems to be: "That is just the way it is."

It doesn't bother me that much per se, but what really aggravates me, is that, even if I got to the cover by going back one page at a time, it royally screws up the "back" stack by inserting the cover page into the "back" stack. What is even more aggravating is that it wasn't always that way. I remember routinely going to the cover on my Kindle 2 and Kindle DX without it screwing up the stack.
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