[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by BKh

Honestly I think a major (but by no means the only) problem is that the Kindle (and possibly others) don't always recognize the "text" semantic as the start of the book, and in fact just plop you down in a random spot.

Now don't quote me on this, but I believe the "Text" semantic for the Kindle's Start Reading Location (SRL) is old info, a few years out of date.

I believe Amazon currently uses some sort of heuristics to detect SRL (probably first page right after TOC?).

Originally Posted by BKh

I just thought that having an explanation in the dialogue box would not require any coding changes and might be helpful to us ignorant folk.

(I think Solution 3 below is the best one so far!)

Solution 1

Maybe within the Add Semantics dialogue box, it could have a checkmark/checkbox column.

So if you opened the TOC.xhtml, you might see this:



(Amazing image editing skills, I know! 100% how the finished product should look. )

Solution 2

Or the Add Semantics menu could show you what's currently applied:

Table of Contents (Applied)

Or maybe the Book Browser can add the Semantics in parenthesis next to the filename (doesn't Calibre do something similar?):

cover.xhtml (Cover)
titlepage.xhtml (Title Page)
Chap01.xhtml (Text)
Chap02.xhtml

Solution 3

OR, better yet, the Add Semantics menu could list all the files with semantics, similar to Tools > Table of Contents > Edit Table of Contents:



Maybe in this form:

  Filename          |     Semantics
____________________|______________________
- cover.xhtml       |     Cover
- TOC.xhtml         |     Table of Contents
- copyright.xhtml   |     Copyright Page
- Chap01.xhtml      |     Text,Semantics2,Semantics3
- Chap02.xhtml      |

Now, I think THAT would be the best solution!

You could easily see+set all the semantics in one location, and easily do the entire book without leaving that menu.