Plus, I like my book covers. Just as they were once an important experience of having a vinyl record album, book covers are usually attractive and interesting. When I download a public domain classic from manybooks or mobilereads, I create a cover for it from a google search (using some past cover for that work) when creating the e-book. If Calibre downloads a small image for the cover of a book, I substitute a larger one. I don't care much about spines (browsing the normal Calibre DB is the equivalent of that) but I would like to see 24-30 books in nice rows. And again, I could do it by opening my free Mobipocket Reader software if it didn't fail to pick up 2/3 of the cover images.
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