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Old 12-30-2011, 01:06 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by chrisridd View Post
Hi,

I've been having some problems getting book covers working correctly in epubs for my Sony PRS T1. I was wondering if anyone had any experiences here they could contribute?

I've been using Keith Fahlgren's blog post as a guide. Basically it works BUT...
  1. the cover image has to have a minimum width
  2. the cover page is shown in the normal reading flow

It seems that cover images need to be at least 500px wide in order for them to be drawn correctly as a thumbnail. Any smaller, and the thumbnails are always drawn with wide white borders, so you basically need to use Photoshop (or another tool) to scale up any smaller cover you use before inserting it into the epub.

The T1 seems to ignore linear="no" in the OPF spine, so always shows the cover as (usually) page 1. Annoying...
What I do is if the cover image that I find is larger then 1024 lines, I reduce it to 1024 lines.

I've not seen any issues with thumbnails on the T1. But them I've not really looked. I'll try a cover less then 500px wide and see what happens. But as for the cover being page 1, I don't see how that could possibly be annoying.
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