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Old 08-20-2011, 11:50 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I must respectfully disagree. The cover, in a Mobi book, is not in the HTML at all; it's identified (and very clearly identified) in the OPF file. There's nothing "archaic" about it .
In an actual MOBI file the cover is stored in an arbitrary Palm DB record. Properly created MOBI files have a field correctly set in their headers that gives the record number of this record, but just as with epub, there are tons of MOBI files out there that do not have this field in the header set.
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