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Originally Posted by LaLaLia
I bought a Kobo Touch last friday as my very first e-reader. I didn't want anything fancy and all Kobo readers were currently on sale so it seemed like the perfect option.
I am, however, a perfectionist. I like everything aesthetically perfect. I spent months making sure my iTunes library was perfectly organized, with names correctly spelled, covers with the right resolution and I even spent a huge amount of time adding lyrics to every single song.
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You are not alone. When it comes to covers and metadata, there are a lot of perfectionists around here.
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My currently issue with my brand new KT is that the covers for certain eBooks are not showing on the device at all or they are too small and end up not fitting the screen well when on sleeping mode.
For most people this wouldn't be a problem and certainly wouldn't stop them from reading but it's bugging me.
I know there are a lot of threads about this issue (and I did researched a bit first before starting my own) but I couldn't find a thread that could help solve my exact problem. Let me explain:
As soon as I decided to buy a Kobo I downloaded and installed Calibre.
Since then I've been uploading a few of my eBooks at a time and editing their metadata.
Yesterday, wanting to finally test my KT, I exported all my 132 books so far from Calibre to the KT main memory. Everything looked perfect: even all the covers were showing.
I had, however, bough a Micro SD card along with the KT. I connected the KT to my laptop again, removed all files from the main memory and sent them to the SD card instead. This is when the problem started: the covers are all kinds of messed up. They are either too small or they are not showing at all!
I spent all day trying to fix this issue on my own but nothing works.
I used Sigil to edit the cover but it didn't work.
The only way the covers will show up the way I want them to is when the books are on the device's main memory. As soon as I upload them to the SD card they get all weird.
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GeoffR answered most of this. And the problem is probably to do with the difference in how Kobo treat books on the SD card. As the cover images are generated each time from the first page of the book, they have to be fixed in the book before sending them to the device. And this assumes as JSWolf pointed out that there is no DRM on the books.
The first thing to do is open one of the books with the bad cover and look at the first page. Does it look like how you would want the cover to look? That includes any white space down the sides of the image. When the cover image is generated, it will look exactly like this except for the page number at the bottom.
If the cover isn't displayed how you want, it is generally a matter of changing the html code for the cover page. Usually you check the sizes for the image match the actual image used and then set options so the image is stretched to fill the screen. For the latter, you can stretch to fill both ways which might distort the cover, or stretch one way keep the aspect ratio of the image correct. The exact code you use depends on this.