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Originally Posted by Pjama
Is it normal for the covers of amazon-purchased kindle books not to show up until you download them? That is the case for some of mine, so I'm busy downloading everything, as I HATE seeing that blank sheet with the title. This is why I'm glad I went for the 32GB Oasis, as I can put everything on there and still know it will not slow down the device.
I would have thought that amazon-bought books should display their covers, even in the cloud though?
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My understanding of what is happening is that the Kindle doesn't directly use the cover in the file for the thumbnail.
For example, you can download and transfer azw files from Standard eBooks directly without having to use something like Calibre or Send to Kindle, but to get the cover to show, you have to download a separate thumbnail file and transfer it to the Kindle
after you transfer the azw file.
For files from Amazon, it must be downloading only the appropriate file for the book (mobi, KF8, or KFX). Then, the Kindle uses the information in the metadata to download the corresponding thumbnail from Amazon's servers. That is also why you can get the Kindle to download thumbnails for sideloaded books if you include the Amazon ASIN in the IDs field of the metadata.
On my 6th gen Paperwhite, it will download covers for cloud books, but I have to manually sync the collection.