Missing Book Covers

MOJOJE · 06-11-2018, 08:08 PM

OH NO! Somehow I managed to remove the covers of all books in my Calibre Library

. I subsequently tried running Quality Check to find books with missing covers - it returned "0". Is there a way to add the covers without running "Edit Metadata; Download Metadata and Covers; Download Covers only" and having to edit each book in my library? Help please

Thank you.

DoctorOhh · 06-11-2018, 08:46 PM

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theducks · 06-11-2018, 10:17 PM

so Quality check says: 0 and if you use Grid view, all you see is generic covers?

OK, lets try and retrieve EMBEDDED covers.
select all: tap 'E" (AKA edit metadata, bulk mode)
(Near the bottom) Change cover: retrieve from book files

(this may be where you marked REMOVE

)

This will only get books with KNOWN (properly manifested) covers inside

MOJOJE · 06-12-2018, 08:02 AM

Dr. Ohh thanks for moving to correct forum

theducks - thank you so much! That worked for most all of them! Don't know what I would have done except spend hours downloading each cover. You guys are awesome.

theducks · 06-12-2018, 11:28 AM

Did you ever figure out what you did (wrong)?
Posting that, may save others this kind of grief.

06-11-2018, 08:08 PM	#1
MOJOJE Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2016 Device: none	Missing Book Covers OH NO! Somehow I managed to remove the covers of all books in my Calibre Library. I subsequently tried running Quality Check to find books with missing covers - it returned "0". Is there a way to add the covers without running "Edit Metadata; Download Metadata and Covers; Download Covers only" and having to edit each book in my library? Help please Thank you.

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06-11-2018, 08:46 PM	#2
DoctorOhh US Navy, Retired Posts: 9,842 Karma: 13774200 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: North Carolina Device: Icarus Illumina XL HD, Nexus 7	Moderator Notice Moved thread from the calibre companion forum to the calibre forum

06-11-2018, 10:17 PM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 26,030 Karma: 39102633 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: K4NT(Fixed,New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A, Kobo Aura2	so Quality check says: 0 and if you use Grid view, all you see is generic covers? OK, lets try and retrieve EMBEDDED covers. select all: tap 'E" (AKA edit metadata, bulk mode) (Near the bottom) Change cover: retrieve from book files (this may be where you marked REMOVE ) This will only get books with KNOWN (properly manifested) covers inside

06-12-2018, 08:02 AM	#4
MOJOJE Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2016 Device: none	Dr. Ohh thanks for moving to correct forum theducks - thank you so much! That worked for most all of them! Don't know what I would have done except spend hours downloading each cover. You guys are awesome.

06-12-2018, 11:28 AM	#5
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 26,030 Karma: 39102633 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: K4NT(Fixed,New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A, Kobo Aura2	Did you ever figure out what you did (wrong)? Posting that, may save others this kind of grief.

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