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Originally Posted by John F
And yet, somehow, the first post shows a digital image with digital representations of spines.
So, when you edit your eBooks, and they are missing the metadata you want, do you just give up?
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Metadata can usually be found on the net. How is a library manager supposed to generate true images of book spines, with the same color as the cover, and thickness matching the length of the book? By magic? Because such an image doesn't usually exist anywhere, not in the book, not in the metadata, not on the publisher's website, so the program can't just extract it. (Yes, some ebooks do have spine images, but the vast majority don't.)
Of course it could generate random spine images and slap the title/author on them. They would have some random color and random thickness not matching either the actual cover or the actual length. The Lord of the Rings could well be as thin as a pencil and a short story as thick as the Bible. Somehow I don't think that is what the OP wants.
The solution would be to create the spine images yourself for the program to use, or to write the necessary code for extracting the color and style of the cover + the length of the book (word count?) from the metadata and converting that information to a picture of an imaginary spine. This last doesn't sound too hard now, does it?