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Originally Posted by Maverynthia
OK how exactly do I do the cover:false search? (Where am I putting that? and does it respect the R-click > Download metadata and covers?)
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- Click in the Search field, above the book view/list.
- Type the following expression exactly as shown: cover:false
- Press Enter
Your book view will be updated with a subset of your books. Only books that match the Search criteria will be shown. In this case we're looking for a field/reserved keyword called
cover and want to know if it's
true (has a value) or
false (has no value). So, basically, that search is just looking to see if calibre's got a separate cover image file associated with the ebook. (The tail end of that last sentence simply means calibre is not looking inside of the ebook, just on the hard drive. This is important to note because the book may already have a cover inside.)
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Originally Posted by Maverynthia
Where are the books from? Kobo. I took them from my Kobo directory, shoved them into Calibre then converted them from EPUB into EPUB (some of the books claim to also have been on Smashwords at some point in their life but all were from Kobo). There were no errors with conversion.
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Hmm... I wonder if any of the problem books originally had some kind of Digital Rights Management (DRM - its a fancy term for copy protection) and failed to convert correctly? Sometimes calibre will appear to convert a book properly, without errors, but when trying to read the book, there are blank pages, incorrectly formatted text, and is otherwise just a mess. This is generally due to the vagaries of ebook construction, not calibre doing anything wrong.
If you still have, or can re-download, the original Kobo ebook of the Three Musketeers, try and see if you can open it through calibre's viewer. Or any other ereader software that is supposed to handle EPUB format. Does the book open and display correctly? Do you encounter any problems when paging through the book? Tell us what ereader you used and what the results were.