06-12-2021, 07:46 PM
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Book cover for sideloaded book
I found a epub book online and converted it to mobi for my Kindle. Original book showed a penguin as thumbnail picture. Today I just found out how to use Calibre to create book cover from youtube so I did the same thing, download metadata find the cover online then select the one I want as new cover. Then I converted book to mobi again. After I loaded the book to Kindle, the thumbnail picture is gone. Only book name is show. If I open the book, tap "Go to" and select "cover", it shows correct cover. And if I push power button to let the book cover show on the sleep mode, it also shows the correct cover. But not the thumbnail picture. Could anyone tell me what I did wrong? Forgot to mention, I did the same process with a different book, it worked perfectly. TIA
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06-13-2021, 08:25 AM
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Read this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=329945 Basically after the thumbnails for newly transfered book have disappeared just re-connect your Kindle to your computer while Calibre is already opened and Calibre will re-copy thumbnail images. |
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06-13-2021, 10:09 AM
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Thank you so much for your response. I tested my issue on two kindles. On my Kindle Voyage, I navigated to the thumbnail folder and replaced a jpg file. Then the thumbnail picture showed up. I did the same thing on my KPW4. It didn't work. I used Calibre changed the file ASIN. Then reconverted the file to MOBI. It did not work either. Another thing I found out was, only Calibre 4.17 and later works with connect-disconnect-reconnect fix. My PC has Window 7 which Calibre only supports to 3.48.
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06-13-2021, 10:46 AM
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Time to update
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06-13-2021, 04:18 PM
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06-14-2021, 10:26 AM
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@JSWolf: And don't you make farfetched assumptions (based on one "fact") and then accuse people of wrongdoing based on those assumptions!
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