Problem with Book Cover in Calibre

Kaone · 03-31-2011, 09:35 AM

My apologies if this is a rather basic problem, as I'm rather new to Calibre.

I have a book which is in epub format and which I've added to the Calibre library. When selecting this book in the main list, the book cover appears in the right-hand panel. However if I open the book itself, the cover is replaced by the Calibre icon page (ie the row of books).

How can I get it to display the proper cover as the problem subsequently continues when I move the book to my ipad.

Thanks

itimpi · 03-31-2011, 09:57 AM

To get the book cover inserted into the file, do an epub->epub conversion

Manichean · 03-31-2011, 09:58 AM

The "Calibre icon page" is a book cover generated by Calibre if there is no proper cover available, either in the book or in the metadata, during conversion. The presence of that cover would indicate that you converted at least once without having a defined cover.
The fact that there is a cover in the books detail pane would indicate that you later defined a cover in the metadata. Calibre would try to embed the cover when you export the book from the library, that would, however, necessitate that you use either the save to disk or the send to device- feature in the GUI. If you manually copy the book from its folder, Calibre won't know about that and consequently can't update the cover.
Sometimes Calibre fails to embed the cover on export for some reason, in those cases, try a conversion to the same format (ePub->ePub in your case) to embed the cover in the file.

Kaone · 03-31-2011, 12:03 PM

Many thanks. The epub to epub conversion seems to have done the trick.

03-31-2011, 09:35 AM	#1
Kaone Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Ipad	Problem with Book Cover in Calibre My apologies if this is a rather basic problem, as I'm rather new to Calibre. I have a book which is in epub format and which I've added to the Calibre library. When selecting this book in the main list, the book cover appears in the right-hand panel. However if I open the book itself, the cover is replaced by the Calibre icon page (ie the row of books). How can I get it to display the proper cover as the problem subsequently continues when I move the book to my ipad. Thanks

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03-31-2011, 09:57 AM	#2
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,552 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	To get the book cover inserted into the file, do an epub->epub conversion

03-31-2011, 09:58 AM	#3
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	The "Calibre icon page" is a book cover generated by Calibre if there is no proper cover available, either in the book or in the metadata, during conversion. The presence of that cover would indicate that you converted at least once without having a defined cover. The fact that there is a cover in the books detail pane would indicate that you later defined a cover in the metadata. Calibre would try to embed the cover when you export the book from the library, that would, however, necessitate that you use either the save to disk or the send to device- feature in the GUI. If you manually copy the book from its folder, Calibre won't know about that and consequently can't update the cover. Sometimes Calibre fails to embed the cover on export for some reason, in those cases, try a conversion to the same format (ePub->ePub in your case) to embed the cover in the file.

03-31-2011, 12:03 PM	#4
Kaone Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Ipad	Many thanks. The epub to epub conversion seems to have done the trick.

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