PDF on Kindle Carousel with cover

Gasman2016 · 10-11-2016, 04:44 PM

I have a largish number of big and complex PDF documents (1000+ pages & 20MB to 40MB each containing multi-column text, B&W diagrams and equations etc).

They all show up fine on my Kindle Fire HD - the pdf formatting is perfect, legible and needs no adjustment at all.

The only problem is that ALL these documents have the same generic pdf icon on the Kindle carousel and I find it difficult to choose the one I want. I have cover images set as the first page of the PDF.

I have read that I need to convert these to .mobi or .azw3 to get the cover art in place (which I have tried and does work) but this completely wrecks the formatting so that the books are totally unreadable. I am sure it would work fine for a novel but not a technical manual. I have tried to use calibre to convert from pdf to pdf - but this doesn't work either. My 1000 page document is now 10000 pages and the page sequence is messed up. I realise that pdf conversion for this type of document is highly problematic. Each conversion takes an hour or so and I have tried setting a variety of options but after spending several hours on this I am no further forward - either I have pdfs which I can read but are difficult to identify on the carousel or have documents that are easy to identify but sadly, impossible to read.

This can't be that unusual a request - is there a foolproof and reliable way of getting a pdf with a cover image to show up without too much fiddling on the Kindle Fire HD carousel?

Dr. Drib · 10-11-2016, 05:32 PM

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Cinisajoy · 10-12-2016, 01:52 PM

I am not sure since your pdf is considered a document instead of a book.
Let me look at something.

Cinisajoy · 10-12-2016, 01:55 PM

All my pdfs that I sent to my kindle have the title and author.
How did you get the pdfs on your kindle?

Little.Egret · 10-12-2016, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

All my pdfs that I sent to my kindle have the title and author.
How did you get the pdfs on your kindle?

I looked at mine and it doesn't seem to matter. The doc tab shows the title and author of PDFs but never a cover image (Kindle Fire HDX)

I checked by using the Acrobat Reader and internally this shows thumbnail images for a number of recently read PDFs (example Fowlers's Modern English Usage 3rd ed free download).

Gasman2016 · 10-12-2016, 06:56 PM

All the pdfs were either side loaded using Android File transfer or using Calibre. It doesn't seem to make any difference

Cinisajoy · 10-12-2016, 10:01 PM

I misunderstood I thought you meant you had the exact same words on all of them.
Sorry docs don't have covers because they aren't books.

10-11-2016, 04:44 PM	#1
Gasman2016 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: Kindle Fire HD	PDF on Kindle Carousel with cover I have a largish number of big and complex PDF documents (1000+ pages & 20MB to 40MB each containing multi-column text, B&W diagrams and equations etc). They all show up fine on my Kindle Fire HD - the pdf formatting is perfect, legible and needs no adjustment at all. The only problem is that ALL these documents have the same generic pdf icon on the Kindle carousel and I find it difficult to choose the one I want. I have cover images set as the first page of the PDF. I have read that I need to convert these to .mobi or .azw3 to get the cover art in place (which I have tried and does work) but this completely wrecks the formatting so that the books are totally unreadable. I am sure it would work fine for a novel but not a technical manual. I have tried to use calibre to convert from pdf to pdf - but this doesn't work either. My 1000 page document is now 10000 pages and the page sequence is messed up. I realise that pdf conversion for this type of document is highly problematic. Each conversion takes an hour or so and I have tried setting a variety of options but after spending several hours on this I am no further forward - either I have pdfs which I can read but are difficult to identify on the carousel or have documents that are easy to identify but sadly, impossible to read. This can't be that unusual a request - is there a foolproof and reliable way of getting a pdf with a cover image to show up without too much fiddling on the Kindle Fire HD carousel?

10-11-2016, 05:32 PM	#2
Dr. Drib Grand Sorcerer Posts: 45,344 Karma: 59447733 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Peru Device: KINDLE: Oasis 3, Scribe (1st), Matcha; KOBO: Libra 2, Libra Colour	Welcome to Mobileread. Please take the time to look over our site and become familiar with it. The General Discussion forum is for "General discussions about e-book reading not specific to a device, software or format." Thread now moved to the Kindle Fire Forum. Don (Moderator) Last edited by Dr. Drib; 10-11-2016 at 08:50 PM.

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10-12-2016, 01:52 PM	#3
Cinisajoy Just a Yellow Smiley. Posts: 19,161 Karma: 83862859 Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Texas Device: K4, K5, fire, kobo, galaxy	I am not sure since your pdf is considered a document instead of a book. Let me look at something.

10-12-2016, 01:55 PM	#4
Cinisajoy Just a Yellow Smiley. Posts: 19,161 Karma: 83862859 Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Texas Device: K4, K5, fire, kobo, galaxy	All my pdfs that I sent to my kindle have the title and author. How did you get the pdfs on your kindle?

10-12-2016, 06:56 PM	#6
Gasman2016 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: Kindle Fire HD	All the pdfs were either side loaded using Android File transfer or using Calibre. It doesn't seem to make any difference

10-12-2016, 10:01 PM	#7
Cinisajoy Just a Yellow Smiley. Posts: 19,161 Karma: 83862859 Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Texas Device: K4, K5, fire, kobo, galaxy	I misunderstood I thought you meant you had the exact same words on all of them. Sorry docs don't have covers because they aren't books.