Thread: Changing sideloaded cover
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Old 01-10-2019, 06:29 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by stuartjmz View Post
Ah, THIS may be the issue. I had a new cover via Calibre's "edit metadata" (hence my assumption that metadata on the device also involved the cover), and thought that was all I needed to do. When I click "open path", the book's folder in my Calibre library it's "cover.jpg" (the only image in the folder) shows the updated cover. I didn't realise there was another step to the process. I will try this first, thanks
Calibre will update the metadata and attempt to update the cover when sending a book to the device. It won't always work for the cover, it depends on the code in the book. Calibre tries several things, and if it can find the cover image, it will update it. If the book has been Polished or converted, then it will be successful. But, there is some terrible code out there that would be impossible to automatically find a cover.

The question is, do you see the cover when reading the book? If the cover is there on the first page of an epub, that is what the device will use when generating the cover image. For kepubs, it is different, but, the cover is generally on the first page, and if that is updated, then the cover image will be correct if re-generated.
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