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Old 03-24-2013, 01:27 PM   #12
tshering
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
- If you don't care about the covers, you can set the ImageId to null. This will use the text cover with just the title and type of book on it. No images are stored for them.
I understand this as meaning that the covers look like those of kepub.epubs. And this is something I would like. But what I see is that the covers show a miniature of the first page of the book. (Edit: A little later I found that you are saying this yourself in another post:
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Except for TXT formats books, the Kobo devices use the first page of the book as the cover. If it doesn't that is a sign of a problem. There isn't any option to turn this off. And if you look around the forum, there has been a LOT of discussion on getting the covers right.
Anyway, you are right in saying that no images are stored for them. With respect to processing time, however, I guess it might be better to set the imageId-s of all books (or a selected group of books) to the same value so that the share the same stored image files.
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As with the other solutions, they need manual intervention but automating them wouldn't be to hard.
I am not sure what solutions you are referring to.

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