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Old 08-19-2011, 09:25 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
@HarryT: When converting epub to epub, if the epub has no clearly defined cover, no image is ever replaced. Instead a new cover is *inserted* at the start of the book. The only way an image could possibly be replaced is if it is identified as the cover in the epub.
Yes, that's my meaning. I've encountered several ePubs (commercial ones, I mean) which seem to have the wrong image marked as the cover. I wasn't suggesting that this was a bug in Calibre; the cause of the problem is that too many people just don't know how to create eBooks properly!

The book I encountered this with most recently was a David Eddings book called "Seeress of Kell", which I had to buy as ePub since, annoyingly, although the rest of the series was sold at Amazon, this particular book wasn't. Like many commercial ePubs it didn't have a cover, but there's a map in the front of the book which displayed as the cover, and this (naturally) got replaced when I added a cover with Calibre.

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