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wallcraft · 05-22-2009, 10:56 AM

At one time the MOBI format did not have a cover page, and so the cover image was always the first thing in the body of the ebook. Now MOBI has a separate cover page guide item and many ebooks use it without the embedded cover page. Most versions of the MOBI Reader don't come up on the (guide item) cover page, and some Readers can't display it at all - others (e.g. the Kindle) can only select it from the menu. So I second ericshliao's suggestion to include the cover image in the body of the ebook in addition to as a cover page guide item. The downside of this is that the image will be shown twice in those Reader's that start on the cover page. I have seen some ebooks that use a smaller version of the image in the body of the ebook, and this is an acceptable compromise.

05-22-2009, 10:56 AM	#3
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	At one time the MOBI format did not have a cover page, and so the cover image was always the first thing in the body of the ebook. Now MOBI has a separate cover page guide item and many ebooks use it without the embedded cover page. Most versions of the MOBI Reader don't come up on the (guide item) cover page, and some Readers can't display it at all - others (e.g. the Kindle) can only select it from the menu. So I second ericshliao's suggestion to include the cover image in the body of the ebook in addition to as a cover page guide item. The downside of this is that the image will be shown twice in those Reader's that start on the cover page. I have seen some ebooks that use a smaller version of the image in the body of the ebook, and this is an acceptable compromise. Last edited by wallcraft; 05-22-2009 at 10:58 AM.