Covers not showing up

[HowardBrazee]

I find some e-readers don't see the cover Calibre sees. So I've gotten into the habit of converting the book I buy to .epub, then opening that .epub with Sigil and adding the cover that Calibre sees. Only *then* to I copy the .epub to my e-readers.

Is there a way to do this from within Calibre?

[theducks]

Polish (the whisk broom Button)

[eschwartz]

Polish works to insert missing covers in AZW3 and EPUB.
MOBI does not support updating or modifying cover images at all.

[HowardBrazee]

Originally Posted by theducks

Polish (the whisk broom Button)

I don't see a whisk broom Button in Calibre. I went to help and entered Polish, and it did not find a match. I looked at Plugins, and did not see it.

[itimpi]

It should show up as a button you can add to the toolbar if you go into the option to edit the Toolbar under preferences.

[theducks]

If you already HAD your Calibre install from before a feature (with icons or context) was added, YOU need to modify your toolbars.
CALIBRE won't change an existing tool/menu that has been customized.

Preference: Toolbars: <your choice>

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by HowardBrazee

I don't see a whisk broom Button in Calibre. I went to help and entered Polish, and it did not find a match. I looked at Plugins, and did not see it.

Or press 'P', see Keyboard Shortcuts

Or use the command line, see ebook-polish

BR

[HowardBrazee]

Originally Posted by theducks

If you already HAD your Calibre install from before a feature (with icons or context) was added, YOU need to modify your toolbars.
CALIBRE won't change an existing tool/menu that has been customized.

Preference: Toolbars: <your choice>

When I go to Calibre preferences, I see the following categories:
Interface
Look and feel - Behavior - Add your own columns - toolbars - searching
Conversion
Input options - Common Options - Output Options
Import/Export
Adding Books - Saving books to disk - Sending books to devices - Metadata plugboards
Sharing
Sharing books by email - Sharing over the net - Metadata download - ignored devices
Advanced
Plugins - Tweaks - Miscellaneous - Keyboard - Template Functions.

[HowardBrazee]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Or press 'P', see Keyboard Shortcuts

Or use the command line, see ebook-polish

BR

Selecting "P" worked. I see a bunch of other options that I don't know when to use. I didn't even know that a command line interface exists (and still don't know where to find it). But that's OK. The secret is to hit "P", and boy was that a hidden feature!

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by HowardBrazee

When I go to Calibre preferences, I see the following categories:
Interface
Look and feel - Behavior - Add your own columns - toolbars - searching
Conversion
Input options - Common Options - Output Options
Import/Export
Adding Books - Saving books to disk - Sending books to devices - Metadata plugboards
Sharing
Sharing books by email - Sharing over the net - Metadata download - ignored devices
Advanced
Plugins - Tweaks - Miscellaneous - Keyboard - Template Functions.

Do those not work for you???

[theducks]

Originally Posted by HowardBrazee

When I go to Calibre preferences, I see the following categories:
Interface
Look and feel - Behavior - Add your own columns - toolbars - searching
Conversion
Input options - Common Options - Output Options
Import/Export
Adding Books - Saving books to disk - Sending books to devices - Metadata plugboards
Sharing
Sharing books by email - Sharing over the net - Metadata download - ignored devices
Advanced
Plugins - Tweaks - Miscellaneous - Keyboard - Template Functions.

See Red (above)

That brings up another Menu/form
That is where you configure your toolbars to taste.

Have you visited the Manual? http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/
CLI (Command line Interface) Section is near the bottom on the Left

[rraod]

By default the Polish button is not added to the Calibre's main toolbar. To get this button, go to Calibre Preferences->Toolbars and in the drop down box select the main toolbar. Scroll down the left buttons until you find the Polish Books button and then add from left to right side main toolbar.

The Polish Books button has various options. for the above task, enable the below settings with a check mark.

1. Update metadata in the book files.
This setting will update the old metadata inside the book with the new downloaded/modified metadata.

2. Update the covers in the book file.
This setting will replace the existing cover of the book with the new downloaded cover.

3. Add/Replace metadata as a "book jacket" page
This setting will insert a single or multiple pages of the metadata in a neat tabular form at the beginning of the book.

I always keep these three settings checked.[/QUOTE]

This is a very fast method for updating the metadata and covers in one or multiple epub or azw3 files.

Apply the Polish command to the Epub files and send them to the eReader.

[HowardBrazee]

Thank-you. I have the icon now.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by HowardBrazee

Selecting "P" worked. I see a bunch of other options that I don't know when to use. I didn't even know that a command line interface exists (and still don't know where to find it). But that's OK. The secret is to hit "P", and boy was that a hidden feature!

For the benefit of future readers.

Hardly hidden. That keyboard shortcut is documented is in the keyboard shortcuts section of the manual (there's a link to that section on page 2 of the manual), and it can be seen in Preferences->Keyboard

Whilst many things don't have a default keyboard shortcut, most everything has provision for a user defined keyboard shortcut, which can also override the default values, e.g. I have 'P' assigned to Preferences, and Ctrl+P assigned to Polish.

As to the Command Line Interface, page 1 of the manual has two links to the relevant section of the manual,

To get started with more advanced usage, you should read about The Graphical User Interface. For even more power and versatility, learn the Command Line Interface. You will find the list of Frequently Asked Questions useful as well.

Sections

The Graphical User Interface
Adding your favorite news website
...
Command Line Interface
...

FWIW: I find searching the online manual nigh-on useless, which is also true of other Pythonesque manuals. So I keep a recent PDF version of the calibre manual pinned to my PDF reader taskbar icon. Maybe it's my Google search settings

BR