[PatNY]

Jackie -- Yes, when the jpeg image ends up looking a lot worse, it is usually due to compression artifacts.

In the case of Calibre, I never had an issue with compression artifacts because I import book covers differently -- through the "Browse" button in the metadata editor window. Calibre won't resample your images if you do it that way -- so long as the image's resolution (pixel dimensions) doesn't exceed what is set in Calibre. You can tweak this threshold too. I have mine set to really really large so Calibre will never resize/resample my cover images.

In the case of CC, it think the compression is done to optimize import times and database size. Personally, I would be willing to sacrifice both as I have plenty of storage room and normally only import books a couple at a time. But I understand if Charles doesn't want to go in that direction. I was just wondering if maybe there was another way to get around it.

--Pat