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djstormer · 10-08-2012, 09:51 PM

DiapDealer, Hitch,

Thank you, guys. I followed your advice and placed [type="text"] on only the file I wanted the book to start on, and it worked!

Since then I also got hold of The eBook Design and Development Guide, Paul Salvette, which recommends putting only two entries in the <guide> of an EPUB that's to be converted with KindleGen:
<guide>
<reference href="content/htmltoc.html" type="toc" title="Table of Contents" />
<reference href="content/content001.html" type="text" title="Beginning" />
</guide>

So I got rid of all the other entries from my <guide> and just left those two, and although the EPUB verifier doesn't like it, it works like a charm on my Kindle.

Thank god EPUB 3 is getting rid of the <guide> - I think it slightly shortened my life!

Thanks again.

10-08-2012, 09:51 PM	#99
djstormer Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Tokyo, Japan Device: Kindle 3, iPad	DiapDealer, Hitch, Thank you, guys. I followed your advice and placed [type="text"] on only the file I wanted the book to start on, and it worked! Since then I also got hold of The eBook Design and Development Guide, Paul Salvette, which recommends putting only two entries in the <guide> of an EPUB that's to be converted with KindleGen: <guide> <reference href="content/htmltoc.html" type="toc" title="Table of Contents" /> <reference href="content/content001.html" type="text" title="Beginning" /> </guide> So I got rid of all the other entries from my <guide> and just left those two, and although the EPUB verifier doesn't like it, it works like a charm on my Kindle. Thank god EPUB 3 is getting rid of the <guide> - I think it slightly shortened my life! Thanks again.