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Most of this I learned from others so I can't take credit (or blame!) for any of it.
If I understand correctly, the Kindle has no feature to display the description field anywhere, even if it is populated. When looking at a book, you can press right on the four-way pad to get to the info screen and see a small version of the cover but, again, no description, even though this seems like it would be the most likely place to put it. Maybe they'll add that feature with a firmware revision some day.
As far as the cover goes, if you want to see a larger version, typically it should be at the very front of the book, though this will almost definitely not be the first page displayed. So you could scroll up a few pages and possibly see it. Also, you can press the Menu button, "Go To", "Cover" and see the cover. This is all assuming that the cover is properly "defined" of course.
Finally, while the Kindle doesn't seem to use the description field natively, one way to get it would be to include a book "jacket" when converting your ebooks. When converting an ebook in Calibre. When you're looking through the conversion screens, click on Structure Detection and select "Insert metedata as page at start of book". I am in the process of converting hundreds of Star Trek novels I have in Microsoft Reader format for use on my Kindle and I always include a "jacket" at the front of my books.
I hope at least some of this proves helpful to you. If anyone sees something I'm mistaken on, please feel free to correct me.
- Byron
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