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Dr. Drib, what is so bad about the Amazon covers? Could you kindly explain? Thanks!
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Plus (and this is my own preference), I don't care for the words "Click to look inside" and "Kindle edition." Don |
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The caveat to this process is that "convert" sometimes messes up with the existing formatting. I am struggling with exactly this issue over at the calibre-->conversion forum. My interest is simply inserting a cover in a book where no cover previously existed. I have not yet found a solution solely tied to calibre which works for epubs.
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Sounds like work or you'd need to know which bits did what, but is actually quite simple: delete everything between the first and last period in the URL. For the image you displayed, the original image link is: Code:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512uehJq7aL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-48,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg Code:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512uehJq7aL.jpg which yields this much nicer cover: ![]() This works for nearly every cover image at amazon.... and is doubtless what Calibre does when it does it metadata search. |
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Thanks for that information, Karen.
I wasn't aware of that, or even how to do it. I appreciate it. ![]() Don |
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Yeah, neat trick. I'll have to remember that one.
However, note, it's not the first and last period in the URL, it's the first and last period in the last part of the URL, which appears to amount to a filename. Last edited by ApK; 03-04-2012 at 08:32 PM. |
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Thanks, Dr. Drib for this method.
Will it make a mobi ebook open at the cover? |
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