[T.BugReporter]

New tablet (Lenovo IdeaTab), new reader program (Cool Reader), and newly confused user: for my old tablet, Calibre would transfer extra files to allow the reader program to show the book's cover art, but so far all I'm seeing are bland generic covers. The docs for Cool Reader say that it doesn't try to extract cover art until you actually start reading a book (which is fine with me, because many of my books don't actually have cover art within the file), but it makes more sense for Calibre to save Cool Reader the trouble and just preinstall the cover art I've already designated for each book.

[Some less relevant notes about how I use Calibre and my tablet:

Spoiler:

I don't keep Calibre running in sever mode; when I'm done with the books on the tablet, I use an actual physical wire, connect the tablet to my PC, erase the books that are on the tablet, and load new ones onto it - maybe two to three dozen at a time. The new tablet came with the standard Google Play Books app, but I can't use it because it wants to use cloud storage for everything. (Most of my reading is done on trains, where WiFi and clouds are unavailable.) I was fairly happy with the reader app on my old tablet, but it's proprietary and unavailable for anything else. I chose Cool Reader to replace it (despite it's ugly default theme and way too many configuration options) because it's free and open source, but if anyone has other opinions, I'm willing to listen.

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Now it may be that the bland generic covers I'm seeing are just a side effect of only recently getting my PC to recognize the tablet (the MTP setting on this tablet is so well hidden that I'm still not sure how to get to it if I ever need to change it again), however, I suspect that the cover issue is more complicated than that. What else do I have to do to get the cover graphics loaded onto this tablet in a place and format that Cool Reader will recognize?