@Aweberman: Completely normal that the usual cycle of images won't show up in cover mode, they're mutually exclusive

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As for what's wrong with cover mode, guess the only way left to figure things out is for you to send me some system logs

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Soon after a book switch, enter
;dm in the Homescreen's searchbar, and PM me the "all_system_logs" file that'll dump in documents/

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