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Originally Posted by rashkae
I just tried 1 book as an example (Water Babies)
The book has a cover image, but no cover page in the contents the of the book. The cover image should display properly as a thumbnail, and if you have book covers on sleep screen, it should show there. But there is no where to see the cover when reading the book on device. This is the same for all their epub formats.
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The cover image is flagged as such in the .opf file. I do have an procedure for generating a cover.xhtml file with cover.jpeg linked in it. I personally find their 1400x2100 resolution cover files to be larger than I would prefer especially when most of the background graphics are pixelated and blurry.
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Originally Posted by rashkae
I had no trouble with the Table of contents. However, I notice that they are using epub3 TOC format. For the Kobo, that means you must use the kepub file, and when transferring the file to the device, you have to keep the booktitle.kepub.epub file name! If the file is renamed to remove the 'kepub' part, the Kobo will open the book with the outdated adobe reader software, and will not display epub3 TOC.
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For an ePub3 ebook, the .ncx file is not necessary. It may be included for ePub2 compatibility but since kepub.epub is intended to be opened by the ePub3 compatible WebKit based renderer on a Kobo ereader, adding a .ncx file is not useful. Standard Ebooks does make it clear that they consider the results of opening any ePub with the RMSDK based renderer to generate poor results, a conclusion that I disagree with.
Personally, I do add a toc.ncx using Sigil's Generate toc/guide for epub2 tool.
Overall, most of Standard Ebooks ePub format ebooks are a much better starting point than the abominations served up by Gutenberg.