[jkoppe]

Hello fellow ebookers,

I've been tinkering with calibre conversions for my first time today and I've come across a question. I'm not certain whether this should go here or in the Kindle forum but here goes....

I've taken a public domain document, copied it into Libreoffice Writer to do some clean up and generated a field based TOC. Then using Gimp, I created a *.png graphic to use as a cover. I found that calibre will import ODT files (the format used by Libreoffice). Using calibre, I then edited the metadata and imported the graphic to use as a cover, then converted the book to AZW3, and finally Send to Device | Send specific format to | Main Memory to send the AZW3 file to the Kindle Fire which is connected to the computer via its USB cord. Oh, I'm using OpenSuse Linux on the computer, though I doubt that would have any affect on anything.

Here's what has me puzzled: The custom cover I created shows up when I go to Books on the Kindle, but it does not show up on the Carousel with other recently viewed books. Instead of my custom cover, I see a smaller generic cover which simply says "kindle" and has the percentage read on it. But if I use the generic cover generated in calibre, it appropriately shows up in the Carousel and in Books. Am I missing something in the metadata or in the conversion?

Any suggestions would be apprciated.

--jeff