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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
About covers... high resolution covers make zero sense on an ereader. The image is shown in B&W anyway, and you look at it a second or two while opening up a book (assuming you're using a sleep cover like the majority). I like the covers to be uniform in size, so I uncheck "Keep cover aspect ratio", and check "Upload B&W covers". The distortion is slight, especially for as short a time as you actually see the cover, so I just prefer them neater looking and all the same size. Either driver for epub or kepub will do that. It's not the same thing as watching a movie in the wrong aspect ratio, you'd probably be hard-pressed to tell the difference unless you compared them. Even if I didn't use a sleep cover and had the reader display the book cover while not in use, I'd still opt for not keeping aspect ratio on covers. I really dislike the sidebands that will show when a cover doesn't fill the screen. But that's me, you may prefer something different.
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Given that I use the screensaver directory, I seldom see a cover other than when I open a book and promptly skip over it. As for the lettterboxing or pillarboxing? I prefer it to some of the aspect ratio distortions I've seen. But then photography has been a hobby for a lot of decades so I may be more sensitive to ovals where circles should be as an example.