Thread: Why are my book covers sometimes so small?
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Old 10-18-2019, 11:08 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by geek1011 View Post
No, this isn't due to an issue with the epub itself. This is due to a firmware change in the latest firmware, which seems to now generate covers from the first page rather than getting it from the package document. I haven't tested this much, and it may not apply in all cases. I'm planning to write a cover extractor later to work around this issue (probably next time I import a bunch of books).
That isn't what I am seeing.

Firstly, the cover image for epubs has always been the first page of the book. The RMSDK is used to render it and take it as the cover. This is at least partly because for books with DRM, the image marked as the cover is encrypted and this is the simplest way to get something. The same goes for PDFs.

Kepubs uses the image that is marked as the cover. This might have changed somewhere. In the past, it had to be marked in the OPF as 'properties="cover-image"'. Now it looks like only the cover meta item needs to point to it correctly. Without either of these, I get the default cover with the title and format on it.
Last edited by davidfor; 10-20-2019 at 08:27 AM. Reason: Missed the word "only" in the second paragraph.
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