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Originally Posted by Turtle91
For your own use, you can do whatever you want... although there may be some specific country laws that prevent changing a product, YMMV.
Some like to emulate the print version as closely as possible and tapping a couple extra times to skip those pages isn't a big deal. Obviously, the rules change if you are trying to publish as you need to make all those people/agencies happy.
Personally I nuke most of the extra stuff, but keep things like title page, appendix/index, copyright, about the author, also by, and move them to the back as much as makes sense.
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Cover
-Dedication (out of respect to the author)
-Title
--Intro/epigraph/maps
--Chapters
--epilogue
-appendix/glossary
-index (maybe keep if it provides value added...)
-acknowledgements
-about the author
-also by the author (I like to see next books in the series and click the links)
-copyright
back cover (if it adds anything special)
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Part of the reason for asking is to avoid deleting something that my future self might want and part is just to see what others do.
An alternative to deleting/moving could be to add "Start the book" to the top of the TOC and leave things in place.
Also by the author only shows the next books in the series if the epub was published or updated after the next books.
Epigraph and maps are useful, although sometimes maps can be hard to view on an ereader, especially a smaller one. Worth keeping.
I keep acknowledgements and about the author.
I rarely see back covers and can't recall any that weren't ads or praise for the author/book.