10-26-2009, 11:53 AM | #1 |
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Cover help for a newb :)
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I'm slowly working my way through learning how to operate my PRS-600 and have also downloaded calibre. I'm making mistakes but hey, if I can't try to break things, how can I understand how they work? Ok, let me start with covers. I first purchased The First Apostle from booksonboard in Adobe Digital Edition.. However, the cover I have is only a plain cover and not the nifty one from the site. I then copied the pic and changed it to pdf format and used calibre to browse and insert the cover which I converted. However, when I download the book, to my device the cover doesn't show up. What do I need to do to see the cover? I feel like I'm missing a step. Is it because of the DRM? Also, when I use calibre to download a cover, sometimes it isn't available, which I find strange considering it's a brand new book. Finding the cover seems to be a hit-and-miss propisition for a couple of the books I have. Why is this? One last thing, in my messing around, I have acquired several copies of books in calibre and would like to get rid of them but of course, I get the message it will delete it permanently from my pc. Needless to say, I don't want to permanently delete it, I just want to clean up my calibre library How can I safely clean up my library without deleting it from my pc? Please go slow with me...I'm just learning the ropes Thanks in advance! Last edited by CelesteGB; 10-26-2009 at 12:03 PM. |
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10-26-2009, 01:17 PM | #3 |
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Yay! Thank you! I also figured out where to find the ISBN number and was able to download the cover properly. I still wonder though why it's easy for some books to retrieve the info but not for others (The First Apostle) which are much newer.
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10-26-2009, 04:02 PM | #4 |
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Ok, I have figured some of this stuff out. I figured out how to locate and change the ISBN; however, when I download the book from calibre to my reader, the cover doesn't show up. What am I missing? It *is* showing up in my calibre library though.
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The covers in calibre are a separate file used for browsing. If I'm not mistaken, those files aren't sent to your device because the device doesn't know what to do with a separate cover file. Are you wanting to see the cover as the first page of the book when you start reading?
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That's sort of what I thought was happening but yes, I would like to...it sort of sets the mood How can I do that? Is there a separate help section for that? (I also figured out d'uh why I couldn't bring up The First Apostle...the title had underscores in it. I'm learning though) Thanks! |
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You would have to edit the file itself, which would involve breaking the DRM. Check out the workshop forums.
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Wait...do I go into Preferences and ask it to NOT save the cover separately?
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If the book is in Calibre, I believe the DRM has already been removed? Or am I not thinking correctly. When I download a cover for a book, I usually convert the book to an LRF (I use LRF because I like my book text to be justified and as far as I know that can't be done in ePub) and I have it set to include the cover in the LRF (or it does it by default) so when I download the book to my PRS600 it has the cover image.
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I knew that Calibre didn't REMOVE DRM, but I wasn't sure if it could use books that had DRM or not. Thanks for the clarification.
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