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Originally Posted by MisterBuggie
Uhhh, I don't think that's right. I have several books with no integrated cover that have never given me any problem. The book I was reading when I did the upgrade I'd changed the cover and it was still showing the new cover after upgrade (which isn't integrated into the epub).
Besides, this book where it's showing the title only, that isn't the first page... There's actually a rather ugly image on the first page.
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Firstly, ottdmk is right about the cover image. An epub can define what is the cover, but the Kobo devices simply use the first page. It doesn't matter if it is has an image or is just text. You can manually replace the generated cover with another image and the driver in calibre will do this automatically. I assume one of these is what you before.
For the book with the text only cover showing, that sounds like an error. The text only cover that I think you are seeing will have the book title or file name plus the book type under it. Under normal circumstances, I have only seen this for text files. It might also be used for HTML and RTF, but I'm not sure.
The other time you see this text cover is as the cover images are generated. When new books are put on the device, the home screen can flash the text cover and then replace it with the generated image. You will also see this each time a book from the SD card is displayed in the home screen.
The fact that you are seeing this for a book means something went wrong. If the first page displayed OK when you are reading it, the device should be able to use it for the cover. That leaves a bug or maybe running out of space to store the image or memory. Does it still use this after connecting to USB or doing a restart? Either of those should cause a recreation of the cover image if one isn't stored.