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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn
- 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.) |
Ah OK, though the book already had a cover, just not a very good one. I think on conversion it took the EPUB cover.
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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.
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Actually the Digital Rights were stripped when I converted it. It actually wasn't displaying properly until AFTER it was converted. After thus it was fine. But it displaying isn't the problem here. Getting the cover image is.
I tried again with a MOBI I had, it failed again. For some reason the Google Image plugin hates The Three Musketeers.
EDIT: here's the file. It's a KOBO non DRM epub that seems to have come from Gutenberg. But as I said, it's not like the file itself seems to matter in this case. Just the name/author.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...950abd338.epub