There's a difference in behaviour between ADE and the Sony Reader. ADE displays the first file in the <spine> element as the first file in the output. The Sony Reader appears, in the presence of a page map file, to display the first file in the page map.
That's a bit of a problem when the first thing to display should be the cover page. We don't want to see a page number on the cover page. There's a workaround that seems to work for both - put the cover page into the page map file using something like:
<page name=' ' href='cover.html'/>
We are not fans of dodgy workarounds. Oh well.
Last week we took Owen (and Pete but he wasn't really paying attention) to Loch Ness. As we drove along the lakeside Em was trying to explain about the lake and the monster. It went something like this:
Em: It's a deep and spooky lake and some people think there's a monster in it.
[Owen appears to ponder this and, a few minutes later...]
Owen: Mum, how did they get the spooky in?
[Em tries to explain what spooky means. She appears to manage to explain this. But, a few minutes later...]
Owen: What flavour spooky?
Me/Em: Huh?
Owen: I'm guessing lime flavour.
Em: Owen, what do you think 'spooky' means?
Owen: It's everything in the world all mashed up and mixed with orange juice.
Me: Owen, that's a smoothie.
Owen: No, not with trees in it.
"Spiderman killed all the dinosaurs because they were too stompy"
"Spiderman has a manager, he tells him what to wear"
