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Originally Posted by kiwidude
@44reader - it sounds like you don't understand what that check is for. Have you read the help file by any chance? (Not being facetious - just wanting to know if my explanation there needs enhancing).
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I've read it many times! I'm not suggesting it could be written better; it's just that I had trouble getting my head round it. I'm just thick really.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
A "replaceable" cover is a *good* thing. It means that when you use save to disk/send to device (or the Update metadata option in Modify ePub) that calibre will replace the cover in the ePub with the latest cover you have given the book in your library. So you ran the check, it told you it was possible for that book to have its cover replaced, then you ran Modify ePub and replaced it. It isn't telling you that the cover *needs* replacing because it is a different image, it is just telling you that it "could" be replaced. Hence why you run the check again the book shows up again.
Whereas the Check non-replaceable cover tells you that running "Update metadata" or save to disk/send to device is *not* going to be able to replace your cover image. The only way around that is to use the "Insert or replace cover" option in Modify ePub, or do a conversion in calibre (the former the preferred option).
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I get it. Thanks.
However, I've changed a lot of covers and what I still don't quite understand is this:
I've changed lots of covers and then done conversions and/or run "Update metadata" and/or "Insert or replace cover".
The only few that are showing up as "replaceable" are the ones whose covers I have changed very recently.
I can't work out what I've done to the rest (the vast majority) that makes them all show up as "non-replaceable".
I don't think it matters either way, because the "non-replaceable" ones have already been replaced. But I'm still confused. Sorry.