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Originally Posted by apastuszak
In order to properly convert PDFs to print replica KFX files, I used Send to Kindle and uploaded some PDFs. They came back down on the Kindle as KFX files, but the cover was a black generic PDF icon and the book name was the filename.
So, I copied the kfx off the Kindle and dumped it into Calibre. I updated the metadata and added a cover. I delete the book from the Kindle Scribe and the "cloud" and synced it over. The book comes over with the proper book name now, but still has the generics PDF cover.
Is there any way to fix the cover?
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By 'synced it over' I assume you mean 'side loaded it via USB'.
Note that calibre will not copy thumbnails to Scribe because it uses MTP instead of USB mass storage, and calibre currently only does this for USBMS devices. So that is why you see no cover images: there is no thumbnail for it.
I think you could probably side load one to /thumbnails folder if it had the right name (matching the document name?) and dimensions. I do not know the details.
If you have another 10th generation or later Kindle you could copy it over with calibre, and verify you see a cover image there. Then copy the thumbnail from thumbnails folder there and put it in the Scribe's.
Of course once you got that to work, you could go back to sending it via STK and then side load a matching thumbnail after downloading.
I just do not know what requirements are for a 'valid' thumbnail file. It might just be a matter of naming it appropriately.