[Tomk2]

It was a minor annoyance. The free ebook of the month from Tor books did not display covers when I emailed them to my Kindle account. I had downloaded the mobi versions from Tor. This month's Tor free ebook was a 40 megabyte file in mobi format, but only a 20 megabyte file in epub. The Tor website was lagging and terribly slow, so I downloaded the epub file and converted it to mobi. The converted mobi file was still around 20 megabytes, half the Tor mobi download file size. I could not see any difference in content with a quick scan on my desktop, so I emailed the smaller mobi file to my kindle account. And it had a cover displayed.

Sooo, I got to thinking that the other books that lacked a cover image could be fixed. I deleted them from my Kindle account. Then I deleted the mobi versions from my software, and recreated the mobi version by converting the epub file. Then I emailed these new mobi files to my kindle account, and each of the five books I did this now displays a cover.

Now I am wondering: Is it always best to download the epub version, and convert epubs to other formats as needed? Apparently true, If you want the cover displayed on a kindle. Has anyone else noticed this?