[rcentros]

Originally Posted by John F

When I look at the table of contents of my current ebook, the cover, title page, dedication, chapters, ... are all listed.

The Table of Contents is not the cover.

Originally Posted by John F

Since you brought up the cereal box... What is the inside the box: the content (probably a plastic bag, maybe a toy, the cereal, ...); people eat the cereal, some may pick out the "candy" in the cereal. What's inside an ebook, the content (table of contents, cover, chapters, afterword, acknowledgment, author photo, ...), some may read some parts and skip other parts.

The contents of a cereal box is the cereal, not the picture on the box or the plastic bag that contains the cereal.

Originally Posted by John F

Just because I may not care about some of the content doesn't make it "not content" to me.

I was talking about the cover of the book, not the Table of Contents or the front matter, or the Index, or the Author's blurb or anything else inside the cover of the book, which are various parts of the content of the book.

Originally Posted by John F

Again, IMO, YMMV.

I understand opinions, but I was expressing my opinion specifically about the cover of the book — not various types of book content inside that cover. You've basically created a straw man argument here.