Thread: Touch Cover image frustrations
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Old 10-26-2012, 09:50 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by thp1017 View Post
I've been having issues with new books as well - I think for all of the books I've copied over to the onboard storage since updating to 2.1.5 (previously on 1.9.14), the covers just aren't getting generated.

All are run through calibre's command line tools (ebook-convert), so I know that the cover is on the first page... and the ImageId column in the DB is set up correctly.

Any bright ideas?
My ideas, bright or not, are:

- What are you actually seeing? A blank rectangle or a text cover with the title and type of book?

- What book type? TXT, RTF and one other type that escapes me right now, never use a cover image. These always just show the title and type.

- Path length as explained above. If you use calibre and the new driver to send the books to the device, it keeps the path length for the books short enough not to hit problems with the path length for other files.

- How many books on the device? Maybe you are hitting the limit that scoobertron seems to be hitting.

- Have you checked the images directory for the image file? I was doing a lot of playing last night because of this thread and another. I had a couple of books come up with blank covers. When I looked at the images directory, the cover images where there. But they where blank. I deleted them and they were generated correctly after the disconnect.
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