Thread: Forma Cover tips and tricks
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Old 04-18-2019, 06:10 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by PhyrePhox View Post
...the cover art wasn't the same aspect ratio the screen of the reader, and I got a little obsessed...

Does anyone have a better method or suggestions to make this go faster? Thanks.
I started a thread about this last year: Stretch the cover to fit the screen?

Basically, you can automate the process using the Kobo Touch Extended plugin in Calibre. Post #2 (quoted below) answers the question. Post #3 can resend all the already sideloaded covers back to the device.

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The setting is in Calibre. Go to Plugins, under Device Interface Settings, find your Kobo Touch Extended plugin, on the Collections, Covers & Uploads tab, uncheck "Keep cover aspect ratio."
It stretches the cover on the sleep screen to fill it. But since book covers tend to be almost as wide as the screen, the distortion is minimal. And you don't have to manually edit/crop each and every book cover.
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