Thread: Calibre/Kobo cover problems (apparently I'm a three year news)
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Old 07-07-2021, 08:40 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Joliet Jake View Post
All were fixed except the all-white and all-black covers. The all-white ones were DRM fixed. I could read them on Calibre but could not modify them. I just replaced those. The ones with black covers apparently had an Adobe Digital Editions issue. There were only three of them. Calibre couldn't send them to the Kobo in the form of a Kepub because it said my machine was not registered with ADE. I guess I need to tackle that later.
Calibre does nothing with DRM except tell you the book has it. If it mentioned ADE, it would have been a message about you needing to use ADE, not that your machine wasn't registered. And calibre has absolutely no support for DRM removal. This can be done using the plugins in the DRM tools package that is available separately.

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This was less of an issue before since I used to transfer books as Epubs and not Kepubs. Kobo tends to use the metadata cover for Epubs, and the first page for Kepubs.
You have that backwards. For epubs, Kobo renders the start of the book and uses the first page for the cover. For kepubs, the cover image is found from the metadata and extracted.
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