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Old 04-27-2009, 05:25 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by bossmanx9 View Post
The ebooks I'm creating are for a newspaper. I want to use an image of the front page as the "cover," but all the articles inside the book are in text form. The cover images I have are small thumbnail-sized images and when they are blown up and displayed as the first page they look really bad.
One of the advantages of the ePub approach to "covers" is that it really is the 1st page no matter what this contains. So you could build a cover page that included HTML for the name of the newspaper and the date and then below that the thumbnail-sized image (perhaps magnified a bit, but not full page). Note that Calibre will then make a (600x800?) image of the full page to act as the cover image when converting the ePub to MOBI.
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