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Originally Posted by cearp
Sure, the same idea could be used to apply/change the thumbnail for any book.
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That would work well and not be so complicated for actual AZW files which have the ASIN present. If they don't, then we don't have so much to work with - unless the file is not drm protected, then we could extract the cover ourselves, but that would be more work.
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That’s great news! Unfortunately the ASIN actually gets overwritten with a random value in the process of uploading the book to the Kindle cloud, so I guess the covers would have to be extracted from the (DRM-free) AZW file. Would you have any pointers on how this can be done? There used to be a python script to do just that but it stopped working after fw 5.8.5, and as the developer dropped the project I always assumed it was no longer possible.
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Originally Posted by cearp
Just to make it clear though, I won't develop this idea  |
Yes of course, didn’t mean to imply that I was expecting you to implement it, sorry if it came through this way
I was just curious if this could be an avenue for someone with development skills, time, and most importantly an interest in this issue to possibly explore. If there is a way to extract images from AZW files then I might give it a shot myself (although I’m not much of a developer so no promises
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