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Old 06-02-2010, 12:38 AM   #1
tonyx3
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calibre-inserted covers not getting imported by reader after editing with Sigil

I used Sigil to get proper chapter breaks on an epub I'd converted using calibre.

During the conversion, I'd inserted the book cover, as normal.

After using Sigil to edit the chapter breaks, when I imported the book to my Android phone (using Aldiko as the reader), the cover doesn't get imported.


Normal calibre conversion have the cover imported properly, so I'm wondering, does Sigil change something in the code about the cover image?


I didn't manually change any of that code, just the chapters.

For reference, I THINK when Aldiko imports a book, it extracts the cover and uses it as a thumbnail for its bookshelf view. When I look at its ebook directory, other books have versions of the cover image, but the ones I edit with Sigil don't.

The cover still appears fine when I use other software to open the book, but it's not getting extracted during the import process, so there's no thumbnail of it.


My overall process:

1. convert book to epub using calibre (inserting cover along the way)
2. add proper chapter breaks with Sigil
3. access calibre's web server with Android browser to d/l the book to phone and import it using Aldiko
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