Thread: use a html page from ebook as the cover
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Old 11-28-2016, 12:12 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
then when calibre sends book to kindle ( by wire) , it sends only the book mobi/azw file from which the kindle firmware extracts the inside cover and uses that as a thumbnail. true/false ?
Calibre usually (but not always) copies a separate cover image thumbnail file when sending a book to an e-ink kindle device. The kindle will then either use this thumbnail copy, extract a cover thumbnail image from the book itself, download one from its servers, or leave the book with no cover thumbnail. This depends on the internal coding of the book (Format: MOBI vs KF8, CDETYPE: EBOK vs PDOC vs none, and ASIN) and the kindle firmware version.

You can see the thumbnail image files on your kindle by looking in the system/thumbnails folder. (Show hidden files to see the 'system' folder.)
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