Thread: Touch Trouble with eBook covers
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Old 04-09-2013, 12:30 AM   #13
davidfor
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
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.
There was a change in the firmware for handling cover images in 2.3.1. Before that, it resized the stored cover images to a 3:4 aspect ratio before displaying them. Now, it preserves the aspect ratio. If you look at any purchased kepubs, you will probably find some tall and skinny covers displayed in the library list or on the home screen. In the calibre driver, I added an option to keep the aspect ratio if you send the cover separately from the book.

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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.
Deleting from calibre will also do it correctly and is fast enough.
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