[Phssthpok]

I have some books with multi-megabyte cover images. To save space, I want to resize them to 300px wide (which reduces the image to about 50K with adequate quality for my Kindle). The only way I've found to do this is a real pain:
1) Edit book
1a) open cover image
1b) resize image
1c) save image
1d) use "add cover" tool to regenerate title page
1e) save book
2) Edit metadata
2a) set cover image from book

Step 1 (a -e) resizes the cover; and I have discovered that if I forget step 2a, and do anything else to the metadata without it, the original full-size image reappears in the book and I have to start all over again.

Is this really the simplest way to do this, or am I missing something? (Wouldn't be the first time if so.)

If this really is the simplest solution, would it be feasible to provide a "resize cover" option in the Edit Metadata dialog to avoid all this?

Thanks!