Cover image problems.

WraithTDK · 02-23-2012, 05:13 PM

I'm having a devil of a time getting the cover to three of my Gears of War ebooks to show up in the Kindle App on my Android phone (a Motorola Atrix 2). I used Calibre to download the metadata from Amazon and add the cover. When I open the Kindle Desktop app, the books show up just fine, cover and all. But no matter what I do, I can't get the covers to show on my phone.

So far, I have tried:

1. Copying the .mobi files to my phone's Kindle directory.
2. Copying the .mobi, .jpeg and .opf to my phone's Kindle directory.
3. Mounting my phone's Kindle directory as a device in Calibre and using "send to device.
4. "Converting" the files from .mobi to .mobi.

Nothing seems to work. My only clue so far is that I played around with a program called mobi2mobi and used the mobi2mobi Windows GUI and found that the files had thumbnails but no cover showed up. But even from within mobi2mobi I couldn't get the covers to stick no matter what I did.

I'm about to pull my hair out. Help?

itimpi · 02-23-2012, 09:37 PM

After downloading the covers in Calibre did you try doing a mobi to mobi conversion? This seems to sometimes be needed to get covers to be properly embedded into the mobi file.

WraithTDK · 02-24-2012, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by itimpi

After downloading the covers in Calibre did you try doing a mobi to mobi conversion? This seems to sometimes be needed to get covers to be properly embedded into the mobi file.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WraithTDK

So far, I have tried:

1. Copying the .mobi files to my phone's Kindle directory.
2. Copying the .mobi, .jpeg and .opf to my phone's Kindle directory.
3. Mounting my phone's Kindle directory as a device in Calibre and using "send to device.
4. "Converting" the files from .mobi to .mobi.

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02-23-2012, 05:13 PM	#1
WraithTDK Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Motrola Atrix 2 w/Kindle App	Cover image problems. I'm having a devil of a time getting the cover to three of my Gears of War ebooks to show up in the Kindle App on my Android phone (a Motorola Atrix 2). I used Calibre to download the metadata from Amazon and add the cover. When I open the Kindle Desktop app, the books show up just fine, cover and all. But no matter what I do, I can't get the covers to show on my phone. So far, I have tried: 1. Copying the .mobi files to my phone's Kindle directory. 2. Copying the .mobi, .jpeg and .opf to my phone's Kindle directory. 3. Mounting my phone's Kindle directory as a device in Calibre and using "send to device. 4. "Converting" the files from .mobi to .mobi. Nothing seems to work. My only clue so far is that I played around with a program called mobi2mobi and used the mobi2mobi Windows GUI and found that the files had thumbnails but no cover showed up. But even from within mobi2mobi I couldn't get the covers to stick no matter what I did. I'm about to pull my hair out. Help?

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02-23-2012, 09:37 PM	#2
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,552 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	After downloading the covers in Calibre did you try doing a mobi to mobi conversion? This seems to sometimes be needed to get covers to be properly embedded into the mobi file.