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Originally Posted by jsundman
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Using Calibre I converted a book yesterday from .ODT (open office) to Epub and Mobi. The books appear to be properly formatted, yay. I used the metadata editor to specify a cover, and that shows up in the Calibre pane.
But when I open the book to read it in the ebook reader, the cover is wrong. It just shows a glyph (my logo) blown up to fill the cover space. Not sure where it's grabbing that logo from, but it's wrong, obviously. Somehow the reader isn't finding the cover.
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I can't help with the error message but the behavior you list with the cover is normal.
Calibre NEVER displays the cover that is inside of an ebook. Instead, it uses a JPEG image stored beside the ebook. When an ebook is imported, Calibre extracts a copy of its cover, if there is one, and generates the cover.jpg that it then uses. When you "add a cover" using the metadata editor you are adding or changing the cover.jpg that Calibre uses but you are not actually adding or changing the cover in the ebook itself.
There are a number of actions in Calibre that you can use to insert the new altered cover into the ebook itself, provided the ebook's format allows such action. Changing the workflow so that you edit the metadata and add a cover BEFORE converting to another format will allow Calibre to incorporate the metadata edits and cover (where supported) in the resulting converted ebook.