Kindle doesn't like Prologues and Forwards ?

[Stan]

The last few kindle ebooks I've read (I am using the iPad app) I noticed opened the book to the first page of the first chapter of the book

It was when flipping back to look at the cover art that I noticed there was a Forward written, which I would have totally missed if not for this accident.

Is anyone else noticing this ? Is it just the iPad app at fault ?

[Nick]

That is the default behavior on every kindle or kindle app I've ever read on. I've just gotten into the habit of checking the "Table of Contents" to see if I need to back up if there is a foreword (you spelled it wrong in your header) or prologue. So can't blame iPad this time.

[Stan]

Weird, there is a lot of important information I may have been missing. I'll have to start checking every book I read for now on

(if Forword is the only word I mis-spelled in the post, then I am doing a lot better than my average)

[Nick]

Stan wrote: "(if Forword is the only word I mis-spelled in the post, then I am..."

ROFL. Ya did it again. "Foreword" .. only reason I correct you is because I'm so awful at spelling I'm super paranoid about misspelling on anything I write myself.

[Katherine]

Now I have the urge to go back and check every book I've read on my Kindle app and make sure I didn't miss something. :P

[Usako]

I have a habit of always swipping to the beginning no matter where Kindle starts me. That's how I learned it misses all that fun info.

[A.E.]

The author (or eBook creator) should be able to choose where the book begins, in terms of the first screen you see. The iPad does not skip the Forward by its own admittedly nefarious designs.

[Jason]

I always go to the cover first when reading Kindle books. I wish there was a way to make that default, because yeah, you tend to miss stuff.

[Chuck]

Jason wrote: "I always go to the cover first when reading Kindle books. I wish there was a way to make that default, because yeah, you tend to miss stuff."

I do that also, that way I know that I didn't miss a single thing.

[Nick]

Æ wrote: "The author (or eBook creator) should be able to choose where the book begins, in terms of the first screen you see. The iPad does not skip the Forward by its own admittedly nefarious designs."

"Forward" is a direction. "Foreword" is prefatory comments (as for a book) especially when written by someone other than the author.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio...

[Chuck]

Nick wrote: "Æ wrote: "The author (or eBook creator) should be able to choose where the book begins, in terms of the first screen you see. The iPad does not skip the Forward by its own admittedly nefarious desi..."

"Nazi" is a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany. "Grammar Nazi" is someone who annoyingly attempts to persuade or force others to use proper grammar and spelling all the time.

Haha Just Kidding! :)

[Nick]

Chuck wrote: "Nick wrote: "Æ wrote: "The author (or eBook creator) should be able to choose where the book begins, in terms of the first screen you see. The iPad does not skip the Forward by its own admittedly n..."

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone


Read literally, any time "Forward" is used where "Foreword" is what is meant, the whole sentence is gibberish.

Also Don Quixote is not a book about a donkey named Hotay.

[Warren]

That's a tough one. I "read" books in three different formats:
(paper, ebook and MP3). In one case I'll be upset because the formats cuts something from beginning. In another I'm upset because they left in some gibberish in. (Example-listening to an authors fawning praise of his editor.)
Unfortunately they seldom give the author or the reader a choice.
When I can edit a ebook I usually cut everything prior to "Call me Ishmael".

[Chuck]

Warren wrote: "That's a tough one. I "read" books in three different formats:
(paper, ebook and MP3). In one case I'll be upset because the formats cuts something from beginning. In another I'm upset because the..."

You make a good point, on audio books I hate it when the reader reads every single thing at the start of the book.

[Hai]

Nick wrote: "Æ wrote: "The author (or eBook creator) should be able to choose where the book begins, in terms of the first screen you see. The iPad does not skip the Forward by its own admittedly nefarious desi..."

huh. so this is what happens to spelling bee champions when they grow up...

i always wondered.

[Nick]

Hai wrote: "Nick wrote: "Æ wrote: "The author (or eBook creator) should be able to choose where the book begins, in terms of the first screen you see. The iPad does not skip the Forward by its own admittedly n..."

I'm polymerized tree sap and you're an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you. :-)

[Hai]

I'm completely aware of what nature that you are, as you are a being that is addressing or being addressed, but you seem to be unknowing to what I am, the nominative singular pronoun, used by a speaker in referring to himself or herself.

or in layman's terms. "Neener neener"

[Hai]

anyways, here's my contribution to the topic. more of a question, really, but is there a setting in the kindle to start it at the cover? that's where i like to begin my journey through the unknowns of any book. i find myself having to use the "Go To" option and clicking on "cover".

[Matthew]

On my Kindle, I always, ALWAYS "Goto Cover" to admire the cover art before I properly begin. I don't know, is that strange?

[Andrew]

Matthew wrote: "On my Kindle, I always, ALWAYS "Goto Cover" to admire the cover art before I properly begin. I don't know, is that strange?"

Not at all because I do it too!

[Amy]

First thing I do with new Kindle books is go to the cover as well. It's always bothered me that they didn't default this way or at least give me the option to automatically start at the cover. That is the "real" beginning in my opinion :)

[Tassie Dave, S&L Historian]

I'm another who goes to the cover then works forward on eBooks.
I like to read the notes and dedications and make sure I haven't missed anything.

It should be a setting in the preferences.

[AndrewP]

I wonder if this is something that is set in the e-book metadata? When I get back to my PC I will have to open one up in Calibre and take a look :)

[Noel]

Nick wrote: "Hai wrote: "Nick wrote: "Æ wrote: "The author (or eBook creator) should be able to choose where the book begins, in terms of the first screen you see. The iPad does not skip the Forward by its own ..."

Nick, well done, keep up the fight against general ignorance. Why do people react so negatively to being corrected? Especially when the same mistake is repeated over and over again.