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KB0072: What are guide types?

Each document in a book can have a 'guide type' which is written to the guide section of the Epub or Kindle file, and indicates the role of the document. You can set the guide type by right-clicking on the document in the outline, selecting Properties to show the Document Properties dialog, and then changing the Guide type selection.

These are the possible guide types:

• acknowledgements

• bibliography

• colophon

• copyright-page

• cover

• dedication

• epigraph

• epilogue

• foreword

• glossary

• index

• loi – list of illustrations

• lot – list of tables

• notes

• other.back-cover

• other.intro

• other.ms-firstpage – the place to start reading. Kindle only, deprecated in favour of “text”.

• other.reader-start-page – the place to start reading. Apple Books only

• preface

• start – the place to start reading. Kindle only, deprecated in favour of “text”.

• text – the first chapter of main body of text; it should not be used more than once

• title-page

• toc – table of contents

When Jutoh generates a section without it being present in the project outline (for example, the cover page and simple table of contents page), it will set the appropriate guide type. If you use the keyword %STARTPAGE% for the guide type, it will be replaced by the appropriate type for Kindle or Epub, as specified by the current value of the configuration option Start page guide type. However, this has become unnecessary since all ereaders now recognise (or quietly ignore) the "text" guide type.

Please note that Amazon may choose to ignore the start page: see Why does the start page not work on Kindle?.

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