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GeoffR · 02-05-2013, 10:23 PM

I am trying to replace the cover in an epub with a larger one. I downloaded a cover (1920x1400 jpg) from the publisher's website. Calibre reduced the size to 1053x1600 for display in its cover browser, which is fine. But when I updated the cover in the epub, whether by doing an epub-->epub conversion or by using the modify epub plugin, the cover actually stored in the epub gets reduced to 686x451.

I have a Kobo Glo which has screen resolution 1024x758, so I would like the cover to be about this size. How can I tell Calibre that?

02-05-2013, 10:23 PM	#1
GeoffR Wizard Posts: 3,821 Karma: 19162882 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Te Riu-a-Māui Device: Kobo Glo	cover size shrinks when converting/modifying epub I am trying to replace the cover in an epub with a larger one. I downloaded a cover (1920x1400 jpg) from the publisher's website. Calibre reduced the size to 1053x1600 for display in its cover browser, which is fine. But when I updated the cover in the epub, whether by doing an epub-->epub conversion or by using the modify epub plugin, the cover actually stored in the epub gets reduced to 686x451. I have a Kobo Glo which has screen resolution 1024x758, so I would like the cover to be about this size. How can I tell Calibre that?