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• • November 22, 2011 at 6:03 pm #61136
    nick lamme

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    Ok, so I made an epub and then modified it for kindle output. So far, so good. I used the terminal and kindlegen to produce the .mobi file. But when I open it, I have two problems. I'll make the first problem known here and the second known in another post. My first problem is as follows:

    When I output to mobi format, I have two covers. I figured that Kindle was adding this, so I removed all references to the xhtml file that has the cover from the content.opf and the toc.ncx files. While that removed the double cover, it also forced the book to start on the title page :) So, I would like to have the book start on the cover page and not duplicate the cover. Any ideas? I would be happy to upload screen shots or code, if necessary.

    Thank you all for your help!

    Nick

  • November 23, 2011 at 10:20 am #61142
    Aaron Troia

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    you were on the right track. Delete all references to cover in the opf file (minus your reference to the image and the meta tag that refers to the cover and cover image, but delete the (x)html reference, the spine reference, and the guide reference if you have one) and delete the cover (x)html file as well, you wont need it. Within metadata put the code below in and just replace the cover.jpg with what every your cover name is.

    <x-manifest>
    <output encoding="utf-8″ content="text/x-oeb1-document"></output>
    <embeddedCover>cover.jpg</embeddedCover>
    </x-manifest>

    Aaron

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