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Old 12-04-2008, 11:35 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Quite a lot of commercial eBooks have a plain generic cover, rather than a version of the hardback or paperback cover. I'm not sure why - perhaps their cobversion system isn't set up to handle covers properly, or perhaps there are rights issues.

Most publishers seem to be getting better at this - but that does nothing for the many eBooks out there with dull or nonexistent covers.

I use the mobi2mobi perl script, wrapped in an AppleScript drag&drop applet to add pretty covers.

Paul
I tried the mobi2mobi with either "--addthumbnail" or "--coverimage" but neither seemed to replace the generic cover. Did I use the wrong argument?
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