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Originally Posted by theducks
There are many reasons for NO 'real covers'
My example never had a cover.
BTW
I assumed  you wanted a List to post-process, which is why the configured search plan. The cover Browser also works.  Hold down the control key: Right or Left arrow quickly flips about 10 Covers |
Quality check will find me books with no cover - so I think that ones covered
My original thought was that the list should result from Calibre maintaining a standard column called say "Cover Type". I didn't like the idea of Calibre becoming entangled in maintaining image metadata, I still don't like that idea.
But, in Windows, I now find the xplorer2 Browse Flat idea the most appealing. Requires no changes to Calibre core functionality or Generate Cover PI to introduce a new standard column or to write data to image metadata.
Viewing the covers via x2's Browse Flat feature
presents the files in a temporary area it calls Scrap (its on the heap, not in the file system) one can cull items from Scrap (doesn't touch the files) so that one is left with a list of file paths to books with covers that you want to 'do something about'.
I'm hoping this list could be fed into Import List to set a Yes/No custom column to true for the books in the list. I haven't used Import List so I don't know if that's possible 'out of the box' but I'm optimistic that it will or can be made to do so.
In x2's Scrap View window I'm seeing 98 covers on my 1920/1200 monitor - 33 key presses to browse 3330 covers.
More to come...
BR