Page Order in Kindle .Mobi Format

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Originally posted in “Support” forum. But received no replies. Hence I assume it simply isn’t possible.

I think it needs to be. Hence reposting here as a “Wish List”

Hi,

I am using Scrivener Windows edition to compile my writing into a book.

I like it, but the page order is a bit annoying.

By default when I open up the .mobi file in a kindle it skips right past the cover image and the table of contents, and on to the third page.

Really, I just want it to open up at the cover image, then have the first few pages of legal stuff etc and THEN have the table of contents.

Is there any way of doing this at the moment?

If not, can it be added?

Seems pretty fundamental to be able to have the pages of a book in the order that you want them in…

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Control over placement of the ToC will be possible in a future version, but not for a while on the Windows version. If you just mean where the book opens by default, though, it is standard on the Kindle to have books open at the start of the text rather than at the cover image.

All the best,
Keith

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One of the problems right now is it opens to the first item in the document, which is usually some kind of frontmatter and not the start of the text.