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jackie_w · 01-30-2011, 07:48 AM

FYI, does this help?

Some previous versions of Calibre automatically sent thumbnails to all Sony models. This was stopped a few versions ago when the developers realised that the older Sony models could not use them. It is now an option (2 actually) which you can switch on if you want to.

To stop thumbnails being copied in future,

Update to a fairly recent version of Calibre, v0.7.42 onward should be OK (maybe slightly earlier versions too but I'm not sure how far back)
Go into Preferences - Plugins - Device Interface - Sony - Customize and make sure that the following 2 checkboxes are UNCHECKED:
- Upload separate cover thumbnails...
- Refresh separate covers...

If there are already book thumbnails on the reader then you would also need to delete them manually from [Drive:]/database/thumbnail/database/media/books/

A second possibility:

If the unwanted book covers on the Sony are full-size, not thumbnails, the reason may be that you are using Save to Disk rather than Send to Device to transfer your books from Calibre.
If you are using Save to Disk go into Preferences - Saving books to disk and make sure that the checkbox Save cover separately (top left) is UNCHECKED.

Again, you would need to manually delete the unwanted full-size covers which are already on the Sony.

01-30-2011, 07:48 AM	#5
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,252 Karma: 16544692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	FYI, does this help? Some previous versions of Calibre automatically sent thumbnails to all Sony models. This was stopped a few versions ago when the developers realised that the older Sony models could not use them. It is now an option (2 actually) which you can switch on if you want to. To stop thumbnails being copied in future, Update to a fairly recent version of Calibre, v0.7.42 onward should be OK (maybe slightly earlier versions too but I'm not sure how far back) Go into Preferences - Plugins - Device Interface - Sony - Customize and make sure that the following 2 checkboxes are UNCHECKED: - Upload separate cover thumbnails... - Refresh separate covers... If there are already book thumbnails on the reader then you would also need to delete them manually from [Drive:]/database/thumbnail/database/media/books/ A second possibility: If the unwanted book covers on the Sony are full-size, not thumbnails, the reason may be that you are using Save to Disk rather than Send to Device to transfer your books from Calibre. If you are using Save to Disk go into Preferences - Saving books to disk and make sure that the checkbox Save cover separately (top left) is UNCHECKED. Again, you would need to manually delete the unwanted full-size covers which are already on the Sony.