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Old 05-03-2015, 03:44 PM   #19
Little.Egret
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Originally Posted by odamizu View Post

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But still, as you say, it's silly -- nay, RIDICULOUS! -- that Amazon pulls thumbnails from their server rather than simply extracting them from the ebook. Seems like a whole lot of extra, unnecessary effort for everyone, including them.
If the thumbnail is for a book which isn't on device but only in the cloud they have to use a different method, so the chap in charge of coolness decided to standardise so it was always done the same way.
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