Thread: Book Covers - how generated? where stored?
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Old 12-17-2014, 01:03 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by DSpider View Post
PDF is not that horrible. I "obtained" a copy of all of the Harry Potter books that were OCR'ed and proofread 3 times, faithful to the originals, and they were a beauty to look at. I really found myself ogling at them.

Amazon is just being silly. If they wanted to, they could've easily tweaked the firmware on their devices to grab the first page (which is usually the cover) and display it on the home screen. Same for Mobi/AZW3.

I wonder if Duokan or KOreader displays the covers without doing anything silly (like searching Amazon's website for the books' ASIN) or without even using 3rd party software like Calibre... Hmmm...
No, you are the silly one for reading PDFs on an ereader.

It may hve been OCRed and proofread, who cares? As a PDF it might as well be faithful images, and on an ereader it's still going to reflow like ****.

And it has NO benefits over the gorgeous EPUBs at Pottermore.
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