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Originally Posted by eschwartz
And according to that logic, when you resend the book with calibre, the Kindle notices the timestamp changed and therefore the book is different -- and redownloads the cover art?
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Yeah I'm not sure how the Kindle decides that a book is new. My guess is basically that it has some metadata table somewhere and for each book it has some flag that basically states (either directly or indirectly) whether the cover has been downloaded yet for that book (assuming there is a real (?) mobi-asin associated for it to download the cover). Each time I re-send the book, it either overwrites all metadata entries (including this flag) for that book that was just sent, or it treats that book as an entirely new book and thus new entry (perhaps it forms an identifier for the book based on the timestamp among other things).
So what I have to do is send the book once, allowing it to create this metadata and flag, let it download the cover, so that this flag is now set to 'true' (that it indeed has downloaded the cover) and then I manually sneak in the actual cover which indeed is color, i.e. the one that Calibre sends (but importantly, not sending the book via Calibre as this restarts the process). By then the kindle already has this flag to 'true' so it won't again overwrite the thumbnail.
It's unfortunate that I'm so close to having the best of both worlds here, both goodreads sharing and the covers I want (that I set through Calibre). However, this would be ridiculously tedious to do for each book on my kindle.
First I have to convert the book to AZW3 individually so that I have the AZW3 for the next step. Then I have to use the quality check plugin to add the mobi-asin field (to enable goodreads) (perhaps I could write a plugin that just does this as part of the metadata download process and copies it from the amazon identifier, without caring what store it came from which is the usual excuse for not integrating this into Calibre directly). Then I have to send the AZW3 to my kindle, disconnect, let it download and overwrite the cover, then I have to reconnect and manually replace the cover that kindle downloaded.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
system files/folders are different from hidden files/folders, and Windows Explorer has a separate setting for them.
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I found the setting, thanks for the tip!