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Originally Posted by GnRFan79
Sideloading azw3's via usb you still lose the covers on the library page from what i've found. Even with the trick of disconnecting and reconnecting the Kindle and letting calibre do its thing.
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Recent versions of Calibre will re-load the cover if the Kindle has wiped it after connecting to Amazon. It makes a subfolder in the thumbnails folder to back them up and restore them.
Normally (unless it's changed in recent updates) the Kindle will only check once after you sideload an AZW (or Calibre does it for you). Just connect it to Calibre again. DO NOT reload the book, that will mark it as "new" and the cover will be deleted again. Calibre will restore the cover.
I use the Kindlegen plugin in Sigil to convert from epub, copy the AZW and thumbnail by USB manually.
Since I leave my Kindle on Airplane mode permanently, it can't connect to Amazon so I don't have that problem.
Note: you can set the ASIN code to whatever you want in the OPF of the epub.
After converting that is embedded in the AZW, and the the thumbnail is displayed if its name matches: thumbnail_ASINHERE_EBOK_portrait.jpg.