How to change markup in content.opf when importing .epub file?

[Tom11880]

Hi,

I'm using Calibre for quite some time now, but recently the publisher of a series changed something inside content.opf.

Now, when converting .epup from this particular publisher to -mobi format for my Kindle Paperwhite, the ebook initially opens on the last page.

I tracked this down to the following line inside content.opf:

<reference type="text" title="Beginning" href="001.html#a0"/>

As soon as I change the title from "Beginning" to "Start", the ebook opens at the first page.

The question now is, can I automate this substitution when importing the .epub file into Calibre? (And if yes, how?)

thanks for any hint how to achieve this.
Thomas

[gbm]

Originally Posted by Tom11880

Hi,

I'm using Calibre for quite some time now, but recently the publisher of a series changed something inside content.opf.

Now, when converting .epup from this particular publisher to -mobi format for my Kindle Paperwhite, the ebook initially opens on the last page.

I tracked this down to the following line inside content.opf:

<reference type="text" title="Beginning" href="001.html#a0"/>

As soon as I change the title from "Beginning" to "Start", the ebook opens at the first page.

The question now is, can I automate this substitution when importing the .epub file into Calibre? (And if yes, how?)

thanks for any hint how to achieve this.
Thomas

See screenshot.


To find the start location I use the search and replace regex builder to look inside to find the start point.

bernie

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by Tom11880

I tracked this down to the following line inside content.opf:

<reference type="text" title="Beginning" href="001.html#a0"/>

As soon as I change the title from "Beginning" to "Start", the ebook opens at the first page.

The 'title' attribute value has no semantic meaning. It could be anything you want ("Beginning", "Start", "First", "Read", etc). The reallly important attribute is 'type'. The value 'text' indicates the first page of "real" content on the book (the e-reader will open on this page when first loading the book).

You need to make sure the 'href' attribute is pointing to the first page of bodymatter (after titlepage, copyright, toc, etc).

[Tom11880]

Cool! Thant worked, thank you very much!