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prooney625 · 01-13-2025, 12:31 AM

I was running into the same issue, and I figured the Kindle was using some metadata to determine the right cover to download (despite me having provided one when I uploaded the books). So I went to the Amazon page for the particular books with the cover I wanted, noted their ASIN / ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 numbers, and modified the metadata in Calibre. In particular, I set the Ids field to:

Code:

isbn:<ISBN-13 minus the dash>, amazon:<ASIN or ISBN-10>, asin:<ASIN or ISBN-10>

Once I set these and uploaded the books, the Kindle pulled the cover images from the right version of the book.

P.S. - For good measure, if you have Amazon.com set up as a metadata source, once you set the Ids field you can click to Download covers and the Amazon.com cover should be the one you'll get on the device.

01-13-2025, 12:31 AM	#20
prooney625 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2025 Device: Kindle Paperwhite (12th Gen)	I was running into the same issue, and I figured the Kindle was using some metadata to determine the right cover to download (despite me having provided one when I uploaded the books). So I went to the Amazon page for the particular books with the cover I wanted, noted their ASIN / ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 numbers, and modified the metadata in Calibre. In particular, I set the Ids field to: Code: isbn:<ISBN-13 minus the dash>, amazon:<ASIN or ISBN-10>, asin:<ASIN or ISBN-10> Once I set these and uploaded the books, the Kindle pulled the cover images from the right version of the book. P.S. - For good measure, if you have Amazon.com set up as a metadata source, once you set the Ids field you can click to Download covers and the Amazon.com cover should be the one you'll get on the device.