I'm converting a book for Kindle via InDesign > EPUB > Kindlegen (Kindle Previewer). My client has correctly pointed out that many Kindle titles include an entry for the cover in their in-line tables of contents. So I've set out to include an entry for his cover.
What I've done is go in with a text-editor after InDesign exports the EPUB and create an entry in the TOC using a standard hyperlink to the cover file. This link works in ADE and the Firefox EPUB reader: you can click on the "Cover" entry, and the book will open to the cover.
When I convert to Kindle, however, the link is dead. Clicking on the "Cover" entry brings no response in the Kindle Previewer, on the Kindle Mac Reader, or Kindle for iOS. On a Kindle Voyager, however, the link does work. Which would be great, except my client is proofing on an iPad.
When I exported from InDesign, I used the option to select an external image file for the cover. InDesign then generated an xhtml page for the cover, specified the cover image in the metadata, and listed the cover file in the spine with a linear="no" tag, according to the KDP guidelines.
As a work-around, I've created a duplicate page and stuck it at the end of the spine. The link I've set up to that page works, but once the TOC sends you there, you can't page forward to the rest of the front matter, and paging back puts you at the end of the book.
So is there any way to list the cover in the table of contents? And why would it be so hard to this?
What I've done is go in with a text-editor after InDesign exports the EPUB and create an entry in the TOC using a standard hyperlink to the cover file. This link works in ADE and the Firefox EPUB reader: you can click on the "Cover" entry, and the book will open to the cover.
When I convert to Kindle, however, the link is dead. Clicking on the "Cover" entry brings no response in the Kindle Previewer, on the Kindle Mac Reader, or Kindle for iOS. On a Kindle Voyager, however, the link does work. Which would be great, except my client is proofing on an iPad.
When I exported from InDesign, I used the option to select an external image file for the cover. InDesign then generated an xhtml page for the cover, specified the cover image in the metadata, and listed the cover file in the spine with a linear="no" tag, according to the KDP guidelines.
As a work-around, I've created a duplicate page and stuck it at the end of the spine. The link I've set up to that page works, but once the TOC sends you there, you can't page forward to the rest of the front matter, and paging back puts you at the end of the book.
So is there any way to list the cover in the table of contents? And why would it be so hard to this?