01-10-2019, 04:28 AM | #1 |
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Changing sideloaded cover
My apologies if I've missed this, I've sent the last 20 minutes looking for the issue here while trying to fix it myself on my device.
I have updated a cover on a book in my Calibre library, one that is sideloaded as a kepub on my Aura H2O2. When I click on the book in my "device" library listing, it shows the updated cover, but when I eject the device, it still shows the old one. I've tried removing the cover, matching the book to the library, and countless "update metadata on device, the old cover persists. What am I doing wrong? |
01-10-2019, 07:27 AM | #2 |
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Send the book to the device again. Kobo devices generate a cover from the book as needed and stores this on the disk. The driver removes the generated cover on the device when the replacement is sent and the device will generate the new when it needs it. But, you might get a default text cover until the memory cache is refreshed.
Or use my Kobo Utilities to send the cover separately. |
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01-10-2019, 07:39 AM | #3 | |
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01-10-2019, 07:50 AM | #4 |
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I just tried sending the book to the device again. When I ejected the device, I saw "importing new content", but the cover was the same, so I reconnected the device and ran "update metadata" etc again, then ejected. Still no change to the cover.
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01-10-2019, 08:32 AM | #5 | |
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Does the old cover persist through a power off/on cycle? Last edited by DNSB; 01-10-2019 at 08:35 AM. Reason: Fat fingered typos... |
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01-10-2019, 08:43 AM | #6 | |
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"Update metadata in device library" doesn't update the cover. Just the metadata. If the cover sending isn't replacing the cover, restart the device and check. If that doesn't work, please run calibre in debug mode, do the problem action for a book and post the log. Hopefully that will tell me what is happening. |
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01-10-2019, 06:29 PM | #8 | |
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The question is, do you see the cover when reading the book? If the cover is there on the first page of an epub, that is what the device will use when generating the cover image. For kepubs, it is different, but, the cover is generally on the first page, and if that is updated, then the cover image will be correct if re-generated. |
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