[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Starson17

I applaud your desire to keep the cover always available, but it's probably not a really good idea (unless the cover is your own work). If it suddenly becomes unavailable, there's likely to be a good reason for it.

Thanks for the concern, I would only need to go to hosting an image if I couldn't find an appropriate one and if I couldn't find an appropriate image I would be forced to create my own cover. Good words of advice.

Originally Posted by Mark Adams

In lieu of a possible copyright violation, if I created my own cover would I link it this way using "file" instead of "http"?

Whatever you use, if you host it yourself for your own fair use (not for public consumption) I doubt there is a copyright worry. Starson17 was pointing out that if I did that for a recipe that might serve 1000s of people and used/hosted copyrighted images that I might be leaving myself exposed to copyright infringement issues.