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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
@eschwartz: Then it probably didn't have a valid cover in the metadata, the hack handles PDOCs fine  .
IIRC, Calibre's default cdetype (after conversion, at least) is EBOK, you only end up with a PDOC if the book you're converting is tagged with the same tag as the one specified in the pdoc tag MOBI output setting. |
Correct. But it's edited on the fly according to the output preferences, as the book is sent-to-device.
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The whole cover view thing (both cover & personal banner), while related to the cdetype in some aspects, is a bit more complex, but irrelevant for the hack anyway.
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Well, I wouldn't mind an explanation anyway, I love to learn.
In any event, I've checked 4 more old PDOC-sent books, all fail to generate cover view. They were from various sources, and show cover view (in library list) correctly. While that may mean nothing,
calibre converted them. 2 more from a single other source showed up correctly -- calibre-converted, and sent with cdetype on output set to EBOK.
If there is a better way to set a cover (besides calibre enforcing it on conversion), I'm all ears.