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Calleja · 12-03-2013, 05:01 PM

Are you sure you see the cover you added via Calibre when you do Go To > Cover in your Kindle?

I've been reading all over the place and apparently there are two types of covers for Kindle books: the thumbnail in system/thumbnails, which is used for the Cover view, and the actual cover inside the AZW3, which is like any other "page" in the book,part of the file itself.

Now, the screensaver hack needs the AZW3's actual cover, the thumbnail is not the one it displays. As far as I know, I can be of course dead wrong, what we're doing with the sdr file won't change the cover in the AZW3 itself. Calibre is only changing metadata, right?

What I need is to change the cover in the AZW3 itself without the Kindle detecting it as a Personal Document instead of the original book file from the store. Think this is possible?

12-03-2013, 05:01 PM	#13
Calleja Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2	Are you sure you see the cover you added via Calibre when you do Go To > Cover in your Kindle? I've been reading all over the place and apparently there are two types of covers for Kindle books: the thumbnail in system/thumbnails, which is used for the Cover view, and the actual cover inside the AZW3, which is like any other "page" in the book,part of the file itself. Now, the screensaver hack needs the AZW3's actual cover, the thumbnail is not the one it displays. As far as I know, I can be of course dead wrong, what we're doing with the sdr file won't change the cover in the AZW3 itself. Calibre is only changing metadata, right? What I need is to change the cover in the AZW3 itself without the Kindle detecting it as a Personal Document instead of the original book file from the store. Think this is possible?