Where does the kindle store book covers?

bozza111 · 09-23-2018, 02:40 PM

I backed up /documents and I did a reset.
Most of the book covers are gone. Is there a special place the kindle stores them?

I usually transfer my mobi files using calibre. The books come with a cover.jpg.

(I actually find a lot of the book covers not so nice as thumbnails. Is there a way to selectively disable some book covers, either through the kindle or calibre?)

bozza111 · 09-23-2018, 03:53 PM

Eughh. This was supposed to go to the general kindle forum. Sorry

Doitsu · 09-23-2018, 05:13 PM

Usually, thumbnails are stored in D:\system\thumbnails (provided your Kindle has been assigned D: as the drive letter). Since system is a hidden folder, you'll need to unhide it.

bozza111 · 09-23-2018, 05:32 PM

That is amazing. Thank you.
I am on a mac. It never occurred to me that macOS doesn't display hidden folders even on a fat32 volume.

I could have sworn macs show hidden folders in windows partitions.

bozza111 · 09-24-2018, 04:59 AM

Looks like I have been defeated by 1995 computer obscurity.

It was debian and Ubuntu that display windows hidden files by default (at least they used to). Interesting that the kindle doesn't use the Linux standardised way of hiding a folder.

knc1 · 09-24-2018, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bozza111

Looks like I have been defeated by 1995 computer obscurity.

It was debian and Ubuntu that display windows hidden files by default (at least they used to). Interesting that the kindle doesn't use the Linux standardised way of hiding a folder.

That is a property of the file system in use, not the operating system in use.

09-23-2018, 02:40 PM	#1
bozza111 Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 7542 Join Date: May 2018 Device: KOA2	Where does the kindle store book covers? I backed up /documents and I did a reset. Most of the book covers are gone. Is there a special place the kindle stores them? I usually transfer my mobi files using calibre. The books come with a cover.jpg. (I actually find a lot of the book covers not so nice as thumbnails. Is there a way to selectively disable some book covers, either through the kindle or calibre?)

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09-23-2018, 03:53 PM	#2
bozza111 Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 7542 Join Date: May 2018 Device: KOA2	Eughh. This was supposed to go to the general kindle forum. Sorry

09-23-2018, 05:13 PM	#3
Doitsu Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,584 Karma: 22735033 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW2	Usually, thumbnails are stored in D:\system\thumbnails (provided your Kindle has been assigned D: as the drive letter). Since system is a hidden folder, you'll need to unhide it.

09-23-2018, 05:32 PM	#4
bozza111 Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 7542 Join Date: May 2018 Device: KOA2	That is amazing. Thank you. I am on a mac. It never occurred to me that macOS doesn't display hidden folders even on a fat32 volume. I could have sworn macs show hidden folders in windows partitions.

09-24-2018, 04:59 AM	#5
bozza111 Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 7542 Join Date: May 2018 Device: KOA2	Looks like I have been defeated by 1995 computer obscurity. It was debian and Ubuntu that display windows hidden files by default (at least they used to). Interesting that the kindle doesn't use the Linux standardised way of hiding a folder.

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