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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Usually, we are upset about that because there is no cover.  And it will ONLY derive the thumbnail from the book's metadata if the book is a PDOC. Rather stupid and irritating...
(Without an ASIN -- to be exact, the exth 113 meta field -- you end up with a PDOC, and that ugly banner. Many people embed a fake ASIN to avoid that.) |
Haha, what a coincidence then. Perhaps for me there _is_ a thumbnail because I set the correct ASIN and not a fake one? It did get a thumbnail for the correct book, just that it's a different one from the one I see in Calibre.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You will have to manually place your own cover thumbnail in the [userstore]/system/thumbnails/ folder -- calibre will do this automatically, if you use calibre to send the book to the device.
Once a thumbnail exists, the Kindle will not try to replace it.
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I'm sorry can you elaborate on this? It sounds to me like I can keep the mobi-asin (so that I could use goodreads) _and_ Calibre should place the thumbnail in system/thumbnails so that the kindle uses that thumbnail and not the one it downloads? Is this a setting somewhere in Calibre? I don't see a system/thumbnails folder. In fact I don't see a system folder at all, I'm pretty sure I used to see one. Perhaps it's because I'm on the latest version of the firmware? I'm using AZW3 and not MOBI, in case that matters.
Thanks a ton for your reply eschwartz.