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Originally Posted by slammerkin
QUESTION: How do you insert images into the comments section, when editing metadata, so that they show up in the actual ebook?
When I edit the metadata in Calbire (of an ebook), I add info to the “comments” box. Usually text, and images.
When I finish editing all the meta data, I convert the ebook, and use the option to insert the metadata as the first page in the ebook.
Normally, all the data I entered shows up when I load the converted ebook onto my reader- except images in the comment field. The images, and some of the formatting of the comments, disappear on the actual ebook, even though they show up when I initially add them into calibre. For example, I'll choose to center text, but it shows up L-R on the actual ebook. Some formating goes through- text color, for example.
The “comments” box in the metadata section actually has a toolbar for formatting (centering text, text and background color, etc.)- and when I'm in Calibre, it always shows the images I add, and the proper formatting- but so I know there must be a way to make it permanent. But once I convert it, adding the metadata as the first page, and I send the ebook to my device, the formatting goes to L-R for text, and images just disappear.
I'm almost always converting epub to epub, in case that matters; the conversion is just to update the metadata.
Any help would be hugely appreciated.
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slammerkin -
You need to read the exchange between me and theducks through to the end - its not quite as I first thought, but its better than I second thought 
if you source the image from the 'net, it will show in Comments but not in book jackets - if you think about that sort of makes sense
if you source the image from a file, it will show in Comments and it will be in the the book jacket - but you need to use file:/// eg
Code:
<img src="file:///C:/_Sandpit/test.jpg" alt="My Picture" width="400" height="600">
You can prettify Jackets and add your custom columns, see
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cust...ates-et-cetera
Hope that helps you a bit, your post helped me solve another puzzle
BR