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Originally Posted by jackr
I am very excited with these new updates  . I am trying the beta out and so far everything seems to work except for when I use "Update Calibre Metadata Only". When I use that option, the cover gets overwritten with a screen-shot of the summary page. |
Hmm. I think that's more a matter of labeling than an actual problem. The 'Update Cover' option tells calibre to take the cover from the epub. If the epub hasn't been updated and doesn't have a cover image, it does the usual default. Finding the 'first image' would require downloading the whole story again in the case of a story with no images--not exactly what we want for 'update calibre only'.
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Originally Posted by jackr
And I noticed that it is set to inject the first image found into the epub, which I like the idea of for sending it to the Nook w/o having to do the reconvert method. But I think having an option as to whether the epub gets injected with the cover or not would be a good idea, if it is possible*
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If you have make_firstimage_cover off and don't have default_cover_image set, the epub won't have a cover in it. Is that sufficient, or do you mean something else?
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Originally Posted by jackr
That's one thing I never understood about covers when I was working on an epub in Sigil once. I was able to assign a cover image and keep it from being within the html pages. But it wasn't kosher, even though the Nook displayed the cover just fine.
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Unfortunately, covers are not specified by the epub standards, so it's a ugly as different readers have different ideas. What I've implemented follows the 'best practices' I've been able to find.
Thanks for the feedback, it's very helpful!