12-19-2012, 10:35 AM | #1 |
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Kobo not starting on first page...
Whenever I open a book on my Kobo Glow, it seems to arbitrarily start on pages 3 - 7, and never on the first page.
Is there a way to fix this? |
12-19-2012, 12:01 PM | #2 |
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Depends completely on the ebook. Apparently there's a start-at-X-on-first-open variable that Kobo respects. Generally puts you past the cover, copyright notification, titles, and sometimes (but not always) the table of contents.
Sadly, there is no way to disable this very annoying behaviour (at least not without going into the epub and clearing out that variable). :/ |
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12-19-2012, 12:05 PM | #3 |
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Arrrgh. It's very, very frustrating in some books.
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12-20-2012, 12:22 AM | #4 | |
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Regards, David Last edited by DNSB; 12-20-2012 at 12:25 AM. Reason: Usual typos... the backspace key is my favourite! |
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12-20-2012, 02:47 PM | #5 |
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Think this is the same with all e-readers, they just open the book up where the book tells it to (which is set by the author/publisher).
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06-22-2013, 09:20 PM | #6 |
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I received this ereader two days ago (my first ebook. been waiting for years before finding something fitting my needs), and this feature is irritating me incredibly.
I can accommodate all the limitation and bugs of this machine, but that one :s Is there a way to disable this behavior directly on the ereader, instead of editing the whole ebooks collection ? |
06-22-2013, 09:37 PM | #7 |
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I was wondering why that kept happening to me too on the Kobo Glo. It makes me think it skipped something, so I always have to go back first before I start reading.
And just for info, it never happens on my Sony PRS-350s, when I open a book for the first time, it opens to the very first page, the cover page. |
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Personally, when I edit an ebook, I remove the TOC entries prior to the first page I want to read so I can miss the cover page, the author's book list, blurbs about the publisher, dedication, etc. Regards, David |
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06-22-2013, 11:05 PM | #10 |
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Yes. Maybe I'm weird, but I like to see those pages before I start reading. I like knowing if there's an index available or not for when I'm further in the book and want to check something. I like reading the epigraphs and silly dedications and about the authors. A lot of which gets skipped by the Kobo deciding where to start.
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As for the index? Do you mean a table of contents? The one that is often at the end of the ebook and not the beginning? Why bother since it is much easier to pop up the table of contents based on the contents of the toc file. If you mean a real index, again the TOC makes it much easier to find. You read those pages where they list every book the author has written, co-written, edited or otherwise contributed to? Every time you read that book? The first time I read a book by an author, I might skim over that content. After that, why bother? Regards, David |
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06-23-2013, 12:00 AM | #12 |
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Yes, I meant the TOC, not index, which typically is at the front of the book (if it's there at all, many books still don't have one).
Reading a lot of new authors means all those pages of other books they've written are new (but those are often at the end of the book, which is the correct placement to me). If I like the book, I want to know what else the author has written. So yes, I do read those pages too. While I do reread some books, it's not too often, so rereading the same content isn't a problem for me, I of course skip over those the 2nd time around. I don't mind skipping the cover, but other pages shouldn't be skipped to me. The next time I notice it, I'll have to open up the book in Sigil and see if there is some reference on where to start. But I'll still always want to start at the beginning and not miss the epigraphs or dedications. |
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Or do you think publishers are putting all this stuff (and especially the advertising blurbs) in a book but don't want people to read it? Last edited by guma; 06-23-2013 at 09:03 AM. |
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06-23-2013, 03:34 AM | #14 |
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This is one of those features that sound excellent (heck even obvious) in theory but just don't work in practice.
The problems I have with it are: 1. I still go back to the beginning just to see what was skipped. Nothing of value ever was, but this is a leap of faith I'm not taking. 2. Simply opening a new book and closing it magically makes it 1-3% read. I have to open it again and go to the beginning to make it unread... Last edited by sysKin; 06-23-2013 at 03:45 AM. |
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I've never seen a TOC in a real book that included the cover and title page while that is quite common in ebooks. Tables of content in paperback fiction books seem to be a vanishing breed in any event. Looking at one paperback I have on the table (Dog and Dragon), the pages are: There is no table of contents. 0. cover with EAN bar code on inside of cover 1. a blurb for the book 2. a list of books by the author 3. the title page 4. copyright and publisher information 5. dedication 6. blank 7. acknowledgements 8. blank 9. 1st page of list of characters 10. 2nd page of list of characters 1. finally... Chapter 1 starting on page 1 389. moving on to chapter 27 which ends on page 389 390. blank 391-393. Appendix 395-406 Excerpt from Portal 00. inside of back cover with UPC bar code outside of back cover with puffery and repeat of EAN barcode Now I look at the ebook. Layout is virtually identical except the blurb moves after the title page. There is a table of contents listing cover, title page, booklist, copyright & publisher info, dedication, acknowledgements, chapters 1 - 27, appendix, Portal excerpt. Average non-image page takes 2-3 taps to display. When I read the paperback, I skipped by most of the first pages stopping to read the dedication and then plowed into chapter 1. When I read the ebook (since Baen is good enough to supply their ebooks without DRM), I modified the TOC to start with chapter 1 so I didn't have to tap 20 times to get to the body of the book. Quote:
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