The EPUB spec offers the ability to indicate where a publication truly starts:
This is by far the most commonly used landmark supported in EPUB, we can find it in ebooks from Standard Ebooks for example: https://github.com/standardebooks/nathaniel-hawthorne_the-house-of-the-seven-gables/blob/master/src/epub/toc.xhtml#L99
A common use case for this information is to open an ebook at the bodymatter instead of the first resource in readingOrder. This is something that Kindle apps and devices default to for example.
This is also useful for generating samples and has been used by Apple over the years: https://help.apple.com/itc/booksassetguide/en.lproj/itceb1fd1630.html
We would like to support this landmark in all Readium toolkits as well by using the start value in rel directly in the readingOrder.
We'll explore how we could support other landmarks in the future to extend this further, but for the time being, we can already focus on that one.
The EPUB spec offers the ability to indicate where a publication truly starts:
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A common use case for this information is to open an ebook at the bodymatter instead of the first resource in
readingOrder. This is something that Kindle apps and devices default to for example.This is also useful for generating samples and has been used by Apple over the years: https://help.apple.com/itc/booksassetguide/en.lproj/itceb1fd1630.html
We would like to support this landmark in all Readium toolkits as well by using the
startvalue inreldirectly in thereadingOrder.We'll explore how we could support other landmarks in the future to extend this further, but for the time being, we can already focus on that one.