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Originally Posted by GeoffR
The difference is only if you are using Calibre to send the covers seperately from the book, which can only be done for the books in internal storage. The covers sent by Calibre don't have to be generated from the first page of the book, so they can have any aspect ratio without being stretched or filled out with whitespace. The Calibre-sent covers can have the same look as for kepubs downloaded from Kobo, something that can't be achieved for covers generated from the first page of the book.
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Since I keep 99.9% of my books on the external uSD card, I've never made any use of Calibre's ability to send the covers. I've used Calibre to locate cover images but most of the ones it locates are not even close to the "golden: 4:3 ratio I'm looking for.
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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Sending the covers seperately using Calibre avoids both the letterboxing and the distortion.
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Interesting to see how that is done. Outside of resizing the image to fill the screen which will either cause distortion if the full image is used or lose part of the image if the full image is not used. I've often used search.overdrive.com to grab cover images with the 4:3 aspect ratio to replace some of the odd images used for covers by some publishers.
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Originally Posted by GeoffR
You might be right, it depends what the OP means by "messed up" I guess. I always use the delete function on the device to delete books myself.
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With 132 books to delete, using the Kobo UI was going to take quite a while. I'd rather wipe the books and do a reset which is likely to be faster.
Regards,
David