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Yet another question about covers on Kindle
Hi! I have Kindle Paperwhite 2012, also have epub and mobi versions of my books. Usually I send books to Kindle via email to be able to read them with my phone too with Whispersync working.
When I'm sending just epub or mobi versions via email - covers are empty. Same is when I convert to mobi BOTH in Calibre. Also cover is displaying on my phone when I'm downloading these versions from the cloud, so cover itself is there. If I convert to mobi OLD then cover is displaying on Kindle too but word wrapping is broken (and publisher font is gone, as I understand due to OLD version of mobi or some compression during conversion) and text starts looking much much worse since it's in Russian and word wrapping is highly desirable there. So is it possible to make covers visible on Kindle, have cloud sync and not to break word-wrapping at the same time? ![]() Last edited by kruger; 01-13-2023 at 09:40 PM. |
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This is much like the question about do you want cheap, fast or good? You can pick 2 of the 3.
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Then I drop covers for sure
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But speaking about displaying cover - isn't it just a matter of reading proper attribute by Kindle? Maybe there are some hacks, jailbreaks or some special cooking of book format to have needed attribute?
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Amazon doesnt want you to sideload so they deliberately cripple as much as they think they can get away with. it's been going on for years they gradually break side loading little by little and hope not enough people will care.
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Between that and changes that make it harder to get Kindle books out of the ecosystem, Amazon seems to want to lock you in to them.
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