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terencek · 05-31-2011, 03:19 AM

Right from the beginning I checked the Calibre option which automatically creates and stores a separate cover.jpg image with each book file it converts or processes. But now it occurs to me this is taking an enormous amount of extra space on my Kindle, doubling the number of files.

So: is there in fact any reason why one would create and store a separate cover.jpg file with each book rather than just having it embedded in the .mobi file?

And if not: will it affect anything if I run a global search on my Kindle (from the computer) and simply delete all the cover.jpg files (about 1,500 in my case!)

05-31-2011, 03:19 AM	#1
terencek Groupie Posts: 170 Karma: 1010944 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The African bush Device: Kindle 3	Is there any advantage to storing a separate cover.jpg? Right from the beginning I checked the Calibre option which automatically creates and stores a separate cover.jpg image with each book file it converts or processes. But now it occurs to me this is taking an enormous amount of extra space on my Kindle, doubling the number of files. So: is there in fact any reason why one would create and store a separate cover.jpg file with each book rather than just having it embedded in the .mobi file? And if not: will it affect anything if I run a global search on my Kindle (from the computer) and simply delete all the cover.jpg files (about 1,500 in my case!)