Cover's in Calibre not on NT

[s36x]

All of my books in my Calibre library have covers. I went through Calibre's "Edit Metadata" (Or was it "Bulk Edit"? I think I've used both) feature and added or cleaned up the covers on every book I own and every time I add a new one, I do the same thing. I also adjust the file name and series and stuff, I'm organizationally weird.

But, about 3/4 of my books don't show with covers on my Nook Tablet. I can't figure out why.

PS I've used Sigil on one book as a suggestion I found somewhere and that program is WAY too hard for me to use properly. I'm just as likely to permanently destroy the book as fix the cover

Help.

Any one able to provide a step-by-step on this process maybe?

[itimpi]

When you update the over is Edit Metadata, Calibre is merely updating its stored metadata, and not the actual eBook file.

Calibre will try and update the metadata and cover during a Send to Device operation, but updating the over will only work if it is correctly identified within the ePub file (in many cases it is not).

To ensure a cover update 'sticks' it is often necessary to run a conversion (ePub->ePub will do) as ePub files produced by the Calibre conversion process always correctly identify the cover.

[SharonK]

Originally Posted by s36x

All of my books in my Calibre library have covers. I went through Calibre's "Edit Metadata" (Or was it "Bulk Edit"? I think I've used both) feature and added or cleaned up the covers on every book I own and every time I add a new one, I do the same thing. I also adjust the file name and series and stuff, I'm organizationally weird.

But, about 3/4 of my books don't show with covers on my Nook Tablet. I can't figure out why.

PS I've used Sigil on one book as a suggestion I found somewhere and that program is WAY too hard for me to use properly. I'm just as likely to permanently destroy the book as fix the cover

Help.

Any one able to provide a step-by-step on this process maybe?

I had this problem and tried to figure it out. I found that many of the pictures which wouldn't show on my Nook Tablet were a very different size from the pictures shown when you search the metadata or get a book with a photo which shows. For many of the books I was able to attach a different photo of the correct size. In some cases, I resized a picture. Now almost all of my books have photos. The one or two which don't are because I can't find a picture to edit. Hope this can help you.

[Bobioden]

I also do the epub to epub conversion and have covers on all my books. Find the cover you like, then do the conversion. The conversion seems to add the cover to the book info.