I’ve been successfully compiling to epub from Scrivener, it works great. Cover shows up on the outside. But, there is no entry for ‘cover’ in the TOC, and I can’t scroll back to it. Is there a way to make it show up? I can’t find anything specific to this, though I may just not be putting in the proper search terms.
I’m viewing it in Books on MacOS, and in Bluefire reader on iOS.
A cover is not supposed to be inside the book, but outside. If you want to include it, add a full page graphic before the ToC. The required size is up for debate since epub pages aren’t fixed and graphics will split across them.
There seem to be a lot of folks selling books on Amazon who disagree. A quick flip through my kindle library shows pretty much every single book has a “cover” entry in the toc,
It depends on the vendor’s publishing guidelines, but some will discourage or prohibit having a graphic in the page flow as a navigable section because the reader will also insert the formal cover into the reader’s stream dynamically—thus you’d end up with two covers. So you’ll want to double-check what best practices are with everyone you upload to.
With Amazon in particular, you definitely do not want to be inserting a cover image as a pseudo-chapter. Those entries you see in the ToC are added by the reader software.
For those that do allow it (or for those where that is the only option for providing a cover, rather than in metadata), this is precisely what the Add HTML cover page setting is for, in the Cover tab of your compile settings.