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theducks · Yesterday, 06:34 PM

Back when I first started with Calibre, I documented my paperback collection.
Many were so old (cover price 35cents

), the did not even have a (printed) ISBN.
I would type in the Title and Author, slap the book on my flatbed scanner (HP 4C) and use that output (scaled 50%) as the cover when a search did not find one (or it was a newer edition).
Now-a-days, we have phone cameras with decent DPI, So why not take a picture, Calibre has a crop tool built into the cover section of the MDE, so all yo need as Light and a way to keep the camera square with the book.

Yesterday, 06:34 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,921 Karma: 64187770 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Back when I first started with Calibre, I documented my paperback collection. Many were so old (cover price 35cents ), the did not even have a (printed) ISBN. I would type in the Title and Author, slap the book on my flatbed scanner (HP 4C) and use that output (scaled 50%) as the cover when a search did not find one (or it was a newer edition). Now-a-days, we have phone cameras with decent DPI, So why not take a picture, Calibre has a crop tool built into the cover section of the MDE, so all yo need as Light and a way to keep the camera square with the book.