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Originally Posted by ajkessel
Sounds like I'll be stuck unless Amazon decides to change how it processes incoming EPUBs?
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Yes, unless you have a jailbroken kindle.
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Originally Posted by ajkessel
There isn't any technical reason why EPUBs and MOBIs should be treated differently in this respect, is there?
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The difference is that a kindle will extract the cover thumbnail from MOBI files but for KF8 format (produced from EPUB) cover thumbnails are programmed to match the marketing cover as shown on the sales page for the book. Personal documents do not have a marketing cover and so get the generic one instead.
Amazon could change this if they want to. I doubt they will because the handling of KF8 format has long been frozen and having non-purchased books be inferior works to their advantage.