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eschwartz · 08-09-2015, 06:02 AM

I believe you will find it is sufficient to send the book using calibre.

There are two ways the Kindle gets covers:

If the book is a PDOC (has that ugly "Personal" banner) it will be extracted from the ebook file.
If the book is Just A Book, it attempts to download the cover from Amazon's servers, using the exth 113 meta field (ASIN, a/k/a Amazon product ID). Stupidly, won't even try falling back on the embedded cover.

calibre works around this problem of non-PDOC ebooks, by sideloading the cover thumbnail itself, into the

Code:

[userstore]/system/thumbnails

directory where thumbnails are kept by the Kindle.

I've never seen missing thumbnails when sideloading via calibre, but I see them all the time when sideloading via the File Browser.

08-09-2015, 06:02 AM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	I believe you will find it is sufficient to send the book using calibre. There are two ways the Kindle gets covers: If the book is a PDOC (has that ugly "Personal" banner) it will be extracted from the ebook file. If the book is Just A Book, it attempts to download the cover from Amazon's servers, using the exth 113 meta field (ASIN, a/k/a Amazon product ID). Stupidly, won't even try falling back on the embedded cover. calibre works around this problem of non-PDOC ebooks, by sideloading the cover thumbnail itself, into the Code: [userstore]/system/thumbnails directory where thumbnails are kept by the Kindle. I've never seen missing thumbnails when sideloading via calibre, but I see them all the time when sideloading via the File Browser.