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Originally Posted by mjm101

This worked perfectly, thank you! It allowed the book to start at the cover for both Kindle and iBooks, and it even added the cover to the Kindle TOC. It didn't add it to the iBooks TOC, but that doesn't matter, because whenever you bring up the TOC in iBooks, the cover is displayed on the left side.

Glad to hear that solution worked!

Originally Posted by Hitch

I find having books open on the cover exceedingly annoying, as a reader. The cover has already served its purpose; it lured me to the book, I looked at the LITB for the book and the description, read blurbs, if any, and bought it. If I want to see it again, every reader has a "go to cover" option.

I personally purchase the books for the CONTENT (I don't pay one bit of attention to the covers during purchase)... but AFTER purchase, I prefer the ebook to open at the very beginning (so I can see every little thing that is included).

I guess that is just my error correcting mind at work.... I mean, what if they had a typo in the Title/Copyright Page?

Originally Posted by Hitch

I don't need to see it again. I don't know if they've changed this, but for years, the Dresden Files ebooks were distributed coverless.

I just despise having a "generic" or "no cover". I at least want a higher resolution/quality cover embedded in the book itself.

Example: Where I work, the artist creates original 1800px x 2700px book covers, and they are typically 1MB-8MB. I resize to 800x1200 and embed in the book + pick a JPG compression ~80-95 quality (I try to get the size down to ~300 KB). We also have the original covers available on a site for anyone who is interested in higher quality, and can also resize covers in the future (if requirements at retailers change, next generation ebook formats come out, etc. etc.).

I would at least prefer the cover in the book to not be an extremely compressed JPG (like the kind that gets pulled down from B&N/Amazon using Calibre).

Example: I purchased an EPUB of George R.R. Martin's book, "Busted Flush". Here is a generic cover that was actually in the EPUB:



Here is the compressed version that Calibre pulled from B&N:



And this is a high resolution cover that I grabbed directly off of George R.R. Martin's site:



I purchased the book, I just wish that I could have a cover that is closer to the original cover file!!! I mean, when you purchase a physical book, they don't say:

"Thank you for your purchase, hold on, let me swap out that cover for this tiny cover that fits in your wallet!"

or

"Thank you for your purchase, hold on, let me just swap this cover sleeve with one that just says the book name and author!"

You purchase the ebook, you should get the cover in all of its glory!