[QUOTE=rcentros;3735912]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./QUOTE]
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Originally Posted by rcentros
Not much of a "solution" if you want to read eBooks though, is it? There are real solutions however, they're called Nooks, Kobos, Tolinos, Sonys, Ectacos, Pocket Books ... and all the other eBook readers that open at the cover — the natural, common sense way.
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This is not unique to Kindles. The first time you open an ebook on a Kobo ereader, it opens to the first entry in the table of contents -- not a human readable TOC but toc.ncx or nav.xhtml system TOC. Only if that entry is the cover image will you see the cover.
If I edit an ebook, I will set the first chapter (epigraph, prologue, chapter 1, whatever) as the first entry in the TOC. For the most part, I like it that way since I see the cover image when my ereader sleeps and I really don't need to read through the book synopsis, acknowledgements, list of other books and ghod alone knows what other crap to get to the meat of the book.
Even when I read a deadtree book, I will immediately go to the first page of the book skipping over the pages of filler. When I finish reading a book of any form, I will skip over any filler at the end of the book unless there is some specific reason I want to read 20 pages of puffery for the author (and friends in many indie publications).
Oddly, once you have finished the ebook, the next time you open it, it will open to the cover page.