Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

The EPUB generated by SoL are valid according to the W3C epubcheck.

I tried editing the SOL EPUB of "Play It Again, Sam by POL"

with some info gleaned online on the start point definition.

* added linear="yes" since most working title had that.

That should not be needed as it's the default and as expected, that didn't change anything.

* added the cover & intro to the guide -> Didn't work

* added [a id="start"][/a] to info.xhtml -> Didn't work

* also added [reference type="text" title="Beginning" href="info.xhtml#start" /] to the [guide] -> Didn't work either.

* shortened the guide to include only one type="text" -> That worked!

* completely removed the guide -> That worked

* added a last guide entry: [reference type="text" title="Information" href="info.xhtml" /] -> That worked too.

That last one is the best possible workaround, if you want to keep the guide.

According to some source Amazon set the reading start at the first "text" following a toc in a guide, but the ncx is not a traditional toc page.

So I guess that the guide having no toc, Amazon consequently and stupidly use the last "text" as the starting point.

Now I only see one entry in the guide.

Obviously that solve the problem for the Kindle reader.

I'm not clear as to how the various old reader software will react to that change.

That need more testing from the non Kindle users.

I'll check with those I have.

Are there settings on your Kindle that would control that? You might want to browse the settings.

Nope I've checked for that. Ebooks from SOL on my kindle jump to the beginning of the last chapter when you use the Go To Beginning function which normally goes to the beginning of chapter 1.

I've tested this and it's consistent.

I haven't seen the same problem with ebooks from other third party sources.

Therefore even if the problem is happening on Amazon's end in the conversion process, there has to be something different about ebooks from SOL that is driving it.

Lazeez, when you do a download from SOL, is it doing something, anything to mark the last chapter you read on SOL?

The one thing is I've only tested it with stories I've read on SOL.

I also don't see this behavior when I directly email EPUB files that I create myself from other sources to the Amazon mail-to-kindle service. Only with EPUB files created and sent from SOL.

Again, not a huge deal for me, but I also suspect the culprit could be whatever library Lazeeze is using to create the EPUB files.

The other thing I suspect is if for multi-chapter stories not all posted at once, if he's adding to the existing e-pub rather than building a fresh epub from scratch each time a chapter is added, that could be the problem.