Kindle Colorsoft - no cover art in library

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by videoguy

So, my question is, are you given up in Calibre this issue and left us in cold? (Us, who are not technically good to write code and/or solve digital problem). It was such an relive and joy when Calibre overcome the hurdle with "Amazon bug".

The problem is that unlike Kindles using a USB mass storage (USBMS) connection where the entire partition is exposed and, if you enable viewing system files on Windows (remove the checkmark from Hide protected operating system files, you will see a directory called system inside of which is the thumbnails directory. Kindles using a MTP connection do not need to expose the entire partition and so Amazon does not expose the system directory so the Amazon cover bug fix is not able to work.

To fix this, you would have to re-write part of the Amazon firmware which is not possible on a non-jailbroken Kindle. And that fix would need to updated for every new firmware revision.

[videoguy]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Leave you in the cold? Amazon removed the ability to do that. What do you expect me to do about it? Stick a gun to Bezos' head?

Oh no, stick a gun to Bezos' head would be violent. My feeling is, that human Intelect always smash the brute force.
Amazon did impose DRM, right? And somebody's Intelect prevailed. Then they changed it to different one and somebody Intelect prevailed again.

I don't want to argue with you, unfortunately I'm in health care business and working in hospital and I don't know, how to write program. (Oh, how I wish I could!) But we never give up on our patients and we are fighting for them, because we know how and they don't.

Just my 5 cents feeling.....

[Quoth]

Sometimes it's not possible to circumvent the corporate stupidity no matter how brilliant you are. Kovid and others working on Calibre are probably brilliant and likely most Amazon programmers are average to poor. But they are the ones creating it, so they have the bolts on their side of the door.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Sometimes it's not possible to circumvent the corporate stupidity no matter how brilliant you are. Kovid and others working on Calibre are probably brilliant and likely most Amazon programmers are average to poor. But they are the ones creating it, so they have the bolts on their side of the door.

Book cover thumbnails are easily obtained on a Colorsoft by using the method that Amazon provides to customers for transferring personal documents to a Kindle. In this case the door is open with a "Welcome" sign in front of it and people are complaining that they can no longer get inside by crawling though a window.

[Quoth]

It's a problem artificially created by Amazon.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by videoguy

Yeh, I wish I did that several years ago..... 5,000 books converted to azw3 later.... Some of them are purchase from Amazon, many are purchase from other vendors including different countries and language.

So, my question is, are you given up in Calibre this issue and left us in cold? (Us, who are not technically good to write code and/or solve digital problem). It was such an relive and joy when Calibre overcome the hurdle with "Amazon bug".

Well thank anyway for your great job in Calibre!

This is Amazon's fault. They took away access to the system directory for the 2024 models. So there is no way to overcome the cover issue like there is for older Kindles.

[cellaris]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Book cover thumbnails are easily obtained on a Colorsoft by using the method that Amazon provides to customers for transferring personal documents to a Kindle. In this case the door is open with a "Welcome" sign in front of it and people are complaining that they can no longer get inside by crawling though a window.

Wise comment.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by videoguy

Oh no, stick a gun to Bezos' head would be violent. My feeling is, that human Intelect always smash the brute force.
Amazon did impose DRM, right? And somebody's Intelect prevailed. Then they changed it to different one and somebody Intelect prevailed again.

I don't want to argue with you, unfortunately I'm in health care business and working in hospital and I don't know, how to write program. (Oh, how I wish I could!) But we never give up on our patients and we are fighting for them, because we know how and they don't.

Just my 5 cents feeling.....

Intellect in this case equals stupidity.

[maqueca]

Para mi nuevo Kindle Colorsoft todos los AZW3 quedaron sin portada. Pero seguí el consejo del Manual de Calibre, y en mi biblioteca, donde todos los libros está en epub, eliminé los AZW3 y los convertí a MOBI y los reenvié al Kindle Colorsoft, donde ahora todos tienen tapa. Aclaración todo esto lo hice con el Kindle en modo avión. Temo conectarlo a internet!!!!:parpadear:

For my new Kindle Colorsoft, all the AZW3s were left without a cover. But I followed the advice in the Calibre Manual, and in my library, where all the books are in ePub, I deleted the AZW3s and converted them to MOBI, then forwarded them to the Kindle Colorsoft, where they now all have a cover. Note: I did all this with the Kindle in airplane mode. I'm afraid to connect it to the internet!!!! :blink:

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by maqueca

Para mi nuevo Kindle Colorsoft todos los AZW3 quedaron sin portada. Pero seguí el consejo del Manual de Calibre, y en mi biblioteca, donde todos los libros está en epub, eliminé los AZW3 y los convertí a MOBI y los reenvié al Kindle Colorsoft, donde ahora todos tienen tapa. Aclaración todo esto lo hice con el Kindle en modo avión. Temo conectarlo a internet!!!!arpadear:

You've done it ALL WRONG! You do not want to convert to Mobi ever. You want KF8.

[maqueca]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

amazon-cover-bug is created for MTP based kindle Scribes at the least. I don't have any 2024 kindles to test with so I cant say whether it will work for them, but as far as I know, it should and other people have reported it does. As long has the device has a vendor id of 0x1949 calibre assumes its a kindle and creates the amazon-cover-bug folder and puts the cover cache in there automatically.

Tal como digo en el titulo, tengo un pW 11 gen ademas del Colorsoft. Verifiqué que en Kindle pW está la carpeta de portadas y en System txxxxx también. Sin embargo no me muestra las miniportadas de la biblioteca del Kindle. Si convierto a Mobi veo las portadas de la biblioteca. Pero con el trabajo que sean tomado en generar un archivo con las portadas en el Kindle (hace muchos años y yo he sido beneficiaria de eso) parece que no funciona mas. Es así? y la única solución es convertir a Mobi, tal como me enseñaste a hacer con el Colorsoft?

I've verified that the covers folder is present in Kindle and in System txxxxx as well. However, it doesn't show me the mini covers from the Kindle library. If I convert them to Mobi, I see the library covers. But despite the effort they've taken to generate a file with the covers on the Kindle (it's been going on for many years, and I've benefited from that), it doesn't seem to work anymore. Is that true? And is the only solution to convert them to Mobi, just as you taught me to do with Colorsoft?

[maqueca]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You've done it ALL WRONG! You do not want to convert to Mobi ever. You want KF8.

Tengo Calibre 8.5, pero no existe la opción de conversión a KF8.

I have Caliber 8.5, but there is no option to convert to KF8.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by maqueca

Tengo Calibre 8.5, pero no existe la opción de conversión a KF8.

KF8 = AZW3

[maqueca]

Gracias. Pero estaban originalmente en AZW3 y no se veian los covers en la biblioteca. Pero en el PW 11 existian los archivos con los correspondientes covers (system/Txxxx) y los arcchivos generados por Calibre 8.5

Gracias. Pero estaban originalmente en AZW3 y no se veian los covers en la biblioteca. Pero en el PW 11 existian los archivos con los correspondientes covers (system/Txxxx) y los arcchivos generados por Calibre 8.5

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