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Old 12-18-2014, 05:54 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by dvd8n View Post
Well, I don't really want to fix the xml, I'd rather just have a cover that's in the epub. And the fact that the button manages to extract the cover makes me wonder if that's really an issue.

I just dropped 6 books on Calibre and they all had the brown cover by default and I don't ever recall seeing it work any other way.
BetterRed was responding to my suggestion that perhaps the cover was not properly marked. Since you can extract the cover from Edit Metadata, I suspect that isn't the problem -- unless someone here can say that calibre will extract the first image regardless?

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Originally Posted by BookJunkieLI View Post
If it's always appearing with the brown book as the default cover then the image you're seeing when you open the book to read it is not properly labelled as the cover image. Just as a test randomly pick a couple of your books and open them with Edit Book. If it doesn't have a cover.xhtml or a cover.jpg then they're not properly marked and Calibre is not going to assume that the first jpg listed is the cover unless you tell it to assume that.
The actual name of the file internally is meaningless, it matters if the OPF semantically marks it as the cover.

And since Edit Metadata properly extracts it, I assume that is because it is marked correctly.
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