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That's a horrible way to do it.
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A better way to do it is to edit the book in calibre and see if the first html file contains the title page or if it also contains book text. But that's slow, and if you already have the malformed book on your kobo...
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I'm pretty sure that the Quality Check plugin in calibre will do it for you.
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As I said, I think it will detect a missing cover. That isn't exactly the circumstance described here, but it probably is close enough.
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Ahh, but see, it will detect a /missing/ cover, but not a /malformed/ cover. At least, I coudln't figure out how to make it do this. (Tell me how or add it and you're my hero. (As if you aren't already.))
All the gutenberg books have covers. It points directly to an otherwise unreferenced jpeg file, without an html. And the kobo then formats the entire first "chapter" as full screen with zero (or negative?) margins with the edge pixels of the letters right up against the edge of the screen. Very annoying. Oh, and the kobo won't remember any positions in that first chapter either.
The calibre editor book check even warns that the title page is malformed, but it is unable to automatically repair it.
And half of the gutenberg books are a handful of large files with 5-10 chapters per file...wish there was an easy way to autosplit by toc or something. But that's another can of worms.