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I've had very good luck sussing out covers at FantasticFiction.
But there's no covers for short stories, nor for articles that I download from the internet. What I did was take the base graphic Kovid provides and modifed it by super-imposing "SHORT STORY" over the blue book at the end and saving it to a different name than library.png. For articles, I did the same overlying the thinner, taller second from the left book. THEN, I further modified each graphic to show a small genre symbol in the upper right hand area of the graphic, using SF for science fiction, SP for sports, BR for bridge, C for computer, etc. Different colours too. I assembled all these libraryXXX.png's in the same folder as the original graphic and saved a copy of it to libraryORGINAL.png. Then I wrote a bunch of little batch files (just change the XXX and do a Save File As to a different bat file and you will be done in a minute or less. Lastly, I created a menu of those batchfiles in a folder on my task bar's quick launch. While I have a book open in the editor, I can now click on the folder button in my taskbar and then the batch file and have a very genre specific book cover. While I simply did variations on Kovid's default image, there is no reason why you couldn't do highly individualized versions for each genre or literary division. The batch file is:
c:
cd \Program Files\Calibre2\resources\images
delete library.png
copy librarySP.png library.png
Now, all of this presupposes a Windows installation (XP in my case). Security concerns might require some adaption for Windows 7 and the inevitable UAC interference. Also, the Linux and Mac versions of calibre will require different commands, although the theory should still work.
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