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Old 12-19-2014, 03:24 AM   #31
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Building on what eschwartz just said, are you importing with the "read metadata from file contents rather than file name" selected or unselected? Because if it's not selected, which means it's just pulling metadata from file name, then I don't think it would automatically look for a cover image.
It looks like that's not selected. I don't recall changing the setting.

And, is a cover metadata? I guess that you could argue either way but instinctively I'd have said not. And anyway the phrasing used is "extract metadata from file or file name" - and it's going to struggle to extract a cover from the file name
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That would be a pretty long filename!!!
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Old 12-19-2014, 11:02 AM   #33
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@BookJunkieLI - aaah, but the post to which I 'reacted' didn't mention Edit Book. I read your post as saying the extracted image was injected back into the book as a cover as a result of clicking the brown cover. With what I know of calibre that didn't ring true, and it didn't make sense that BookJunkieLI would think such a thing

BTW : The relevant setting is Edit Book->Preferences->Integration with calibre->Update metadata embedded in the book when opening

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Re-reading my post I see that I hadn't mentioned Edit Book in that particular one. I had mentioned it earlier and probably didn't think it would be necessary to mention it again that's what I was using to view the internal files of the EPUB.

I hadn't known that by default Edit Books embedded the metadata upon opening the book so, sorry that I caused some confusion there. I was simply reporting what I saw without apparently knowing all the facts.
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Old 12-19-2014, 11:49 AM   #34
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It looks like that's not selected. I don't recall changing the setting.
There's a chance you didn't change it. It's been awhile since I've down a new install so I don't remember what the default setting is for that. It may default to being unchecked.

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And anyway the phrasing used is "extract metadata from file or file name" - and it's going to struggle to extract a cover from the file name
Which version of Calibre are you using? My computer at work is running v1.48, yay XP and cheap bosses , and that specifically says "Read metadata from file contents rather than file name". I can't see why Kovid would have changed that wording in later versions or in the Mac/Linux versions.

And, yeah, that would be interesting to see Calibre try to pull a cover image from a file name.
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Old 12-19-2014, 12:22 PM   #35
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There's a chance you didn't change it. It's been awhile since I've down a new install so I don't remember what the default setting is for that. It may default to being unchecked.
I don't remember or care about the wording but the default is to extract embedded metadata rather than deriving it from the filename.

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And, yeah, that would be interesting to see Calibre try to pull a cover image from a file name.
Well, if it was a very small image, you could base64 encode it...
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This is the XML from the first file from one of the books:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Horse Under Water</title>
<link href="default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body>
<p id="cover" class="sercov" style="margin:0;"><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="cover"/></p>
</body>
</html>
The needed 'cover' declarations are don in content.OPF

the page can use any name, any id, any class, any image name, as long as it is properly formed.
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I don't remember or care about the wording but the default is to extract embedded metadata rather than deriving it from the filename.
This from a vanilla install of calibre portable

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