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Old 03-02-2012, 06:51 PM   #16
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Chicken goes with anything. Its the universal food. we need a book cover generator that adds tastey chicken.

War and Peace .. and Chicken.
Great Pullet Expectations.
Pride, Poultry, and Prejudice.
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Old 03-02-2012, 10:15 PM   #17
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Why you gotta be a vanilla hater? Vanilla is an exotic, intense and delicious flavor.

Just not on chicken. Worst Cooks, yo! Represent!
I saw that! Can you imagine!
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Dr. Drib, what is so bad about the Amazon covers? Could you kindly explain? Thanks!
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Old 03-03-2012, 07:06 AM   #19
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Dr. Drib, what is so bad about the Amazon covers? Could you kindly explain? Thanks!
They have a low pixel range and don't look very good when enlarged for the space calibre allows.

Plus (and this is my own preference), I don't care for the words "Click to look inside" and "Kindle edition."



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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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Old 03-04-2012, 05:13 PM   #21
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They have a low pixel range and don't look very good when enlarged for the space calibre allows.

Plus (and this is my own preference), I don't care for the words "Click to look inside" and "Kindle edition."

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Just remove the modifiers that Amazon uses to lower resolution, add the "look inside" or edition info and to add a border around the cover.

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:
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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
and the link you want to feed calibre is:
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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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Old 03-04-2012, 05:35 PM   #22
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Thanks for that information, Karen.

I wasn't aware of that, or even how to do it.

I appreciate it.




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Old 03-04-2012, 08:25 PM   #23
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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.

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Thanks, Dr. Drib for this method.

Will it make a mobi ebook open at the cover?
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Thanks, Dr. Drib for this method.

Will it make a mobi ebook open at the cover?

It makes the Amazon ebooks open at their cover. I've only tried those.



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It makes the Amazon ebooks open at their cover. I've only tried those.



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