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Thank you for all your responses but I actually found out how to do this with trial and error and without needing any plug-ins or Sigil.
If one of you have already, indirectly described this in your description answer, then I apologise but this is what I did.
I thought it may be useful to put down here for other readers.
Putting your own front book cover in the Calibre library AND the first page of the e-book viewer.
1. Download a suitable book cover from the web to your "Pictures" library.
2. Open Calibre and highlight the book in the Calibre library you want to generate the new front cover to.
3. Right click to open the 'context menu'
4. Click on, 'Open containing folder.'
5. Delete the original 'cover.jpg' within this folder.
6. Copy & Paste the newly downloaded jpg book front cover now in your pictures library to the folder where you just deleted the original 'cover.jpg.'
7. Rename the newly pasted, downloaded jpg front cover to 'cover.jpg'
8. This should then change how the book looks in your Calibre library. (You will have to close Calibre and reopen it to see the changes.)
9. Once you have re-opened Calibre, highlight the same book and right click to open the context menu.'
10. Click on, 'Convert books'
11. Click on, 'Convert individually'
12. Click on the 'Structure Detection' tab
13. Then make sure the 'Insert metadata as page at start of book' is checked and then click 'OK'
14. I also went back to the same location following numbers 9, 10, 11 above and then clicked the 'Search & Replace' tab
You should then find your newly downloaded book cover as the first, full page in the e-book viewer as well as in the Calibre library itself.
Thanks
HB
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