How to Display Covers on Kindle Color for Books Not Bought on Amazon (Using Calibre) - Page 2

JSWolf · Yesterday, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by tomsem

By default, calibre converts to EBOK content type (for both AZW3 and MOBI). Those will not get a cover thumbnail. You need to check the 'Enable Sharing' output option to make it PDOC, then Kindle will generate a cover thumbnail.

It's confusing because 'Enable Sharing' does the opposite of what you might think it does (allow sharing to Goodreads). You can only do that with EBOK.

I thought covers were only a problem if you use WiFi. So if you put eBooks from calibre onto your PW6 and don't have WiFi on, do you see the cover thumbnails?

DNSB · Yesterday, 07:05 PM

When sending your books from calibre to your Kindle, have you tried sending them as PDOC instead of EBOK/EBSP?

booooks · Yesterday, 08:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomsem

By default, calibre converts to EBOK content type (for both AZW3 and MOBI). Those will not get a cover thumbnail. You need to check the 'Enable Sharing' output option to make it PDOC, then Kindle will generate a cover thumbnail.

It's confusing because 'Enable Sharing' does the opposite of what you might think it does (allow sharing to Goodreads). You can only do that with EBOK.

I hope I'm not being extermely dense but is PDOC a file type? and where exactly are you clicking enable sharing?

DNSB · Yesterday, 10:26 PM

PDOC is an Amazon cdetype. It stands for Personal DOCument. The other possible cdetypes are EBOK (EBOoK) and EBSP (EBookSamPle).

Look in Preferences => Output Options => AZW3 Output for the Enable Sharing option. See the attached image.

Dopedangel · Today, 08:08 AM

If it is possible to run linux script on kindle the I think you could guys get a workaround where calibre sends the cover files and the script later moves it to the correct folder. If the only problem now is that with the mtp connection calibre cant access the cover folder.

Frogm4n · Today, 07:30 PM

It's possible on a jailbroken Kindle, but not likely on a stock one.

Yesterday, 10:26 PM	#19
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,149 Karma: 168983734 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	PDOC is an Amazon cdetype. It stands for Personal DOCument. The other possible cdetypes are EBOK (EBOoK) and EBSP (EBookSamPle). Look in Preferences => Output Options => AZW3 Output for the Enable Sharing option. See the attached image. Attached Thumbnails

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DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,149 Karma: 168983734 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	When sending your books from calibre to your Kindle, have you tried sending them as PDOC instead of EBOK/EBSP?

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