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Old 08-05-2010, 08:36 AM   #14
mumdigau
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@dwanthny

Thanks for your explanation. Indeed, the epubs I'm going to add to the library haven't their cover properly set. If I do that in Sigil then the cover will be replaced by ebook-meta.

On the other hand, I tried a simple epub2epub conversion with ebook-convert (no options set besides --cover). This adds the specified image as a cover, the original image is still there, most probably since it isn't properly set as cover, and the new added cover looks somewhat strechted. The old image can easily be removed in Sigil, but in any way I have some manual work with Sigil (apparently there is no batch mode). That makes both procedures more or less infeasible, because I want to add more than 2500 ebooks to the library.

At the moment, I see best chances in adapting the conversion process, i.e. replacing the image (not shure if this is possible), and avoiding that the new cover get stretched (that should be possible through properly set conversion options). Since ebook-convert can modify metadata, too, I could do all my changes in one go.

Ciao

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