Hey everyone. My Forma is in the shop for a backlight repair, but before I sent it in, I noticed that the sleep cover didn't stay closed very well, and the reader was often low on battery unexpectedly. I started using my "spare" Aura H2O without the cover to see if it would be manageable to use the Forma that way once I get it back. This made me notice the cover art wasn't the same aspect ratio the screen of the reader, and I got a little obsessed...
First, I decided to find interesting cover art. I like the weird old art from the 60s and 70s for sci-fi. I'm currently reading
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, and I prefer the art from the
1st edition hardcover.
Then, I found
this site that lists aspect ratios of various e-readers. My Aura's ratio is 8.94:6.75 (yes I know I'll have to redo this for the Forma).
Lastly, I used
this site to crop the highest resolution version of the cover I could find. The good thing about this site is I can constrain the crop selection box to a specific aspect ratio.
Then I replaced the cover art in Calibre and re-synched the book to my Aura, and I'm very happy with the result.
Does anyone have a better method or suggestions to make this go faster? Thanks.