No. You are not alone. Check
this.
A possible workaround is to customize the recipe. Assign the "cover_url" attribute of your recipe with the image URL of your choice. The cover image will then be the image specified in the URL rather than the default cover. For example,
Code:
class MyRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
....
cover_url = 'http://www.somesite.com/image.jpg'
....
Alternatively, you may override the get_cover_url(.) method of the class.
Code:
class MPRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
....
def get_cover_url(self):
cover = 'http://www.somesite.com/image.jpg'
br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
try:
br.open(cover)
except:
cover = None
return cover
....