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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
They have a low pixel range and don't look very good when enlarged for the space calibre allows.
Plus (and this is my own preference), I don't care for the words "Click to look inside" and "Kindle edition."
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Just remove the modifiers that Amazon uses to lower resolution, add the "look inside" or edition info and to add a border around the cover.
Sounds like work or you'd need to know which bits did what, but is actually quite simple: delete everything between the first and last period in the URL.
For the image you displayed, the original image link is:
Code:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512uehJq7aL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-48,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg
and the link you want to feed calibre is:
Code:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512uehJq7aL.jpg
which yields this much nicer cover:
This works for nearly every cover image at amazon.... and is doubtless what Calibre does when it does it metadata search.