Thread: Can't change ebook cover
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Old 03-19-2012, 11:58 PM   #4
davidfor
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For the Kobo readers, Calibre copies the epub to the reader and then lets the reader handle the epub from there. Calibre does not copy a cover over separately. After it is disconnected from the computer, the Kobo device will read all new books it finds, add them to the database so they appear in the library and extracts the cover from them to display. If the book doesn't have a cover, it uses the first page as the cover.

What you missed is that when you add a cover to an ebook in Calibre, it is not actually added to the ebook file. It is metadata stored in Calibre database/library. To get it into the ebook, and hence somewhere the Kobo reader can see it, you have to do something such as a conversion in Calibre. You only need to do this once for each ebook unless you decide to change the cover.
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