Tablet Nook Tablet Covers and management

[s36x]

2 Questions here (calibre based but nook tablet specific I guess):

1) Every single book in my Calibre library has a cover in it (I checked the metadata to make sure.) But my Nook Tablet doesn't recognize about a third of them (they were stored in my Nook's memory now they're on an SD card. Same result) I looked at the files (the opf file) and they all have a "Cover.jpg" file listed. I noticed though that in the folder on my SD card where the covers were stored (.docThumbs) all my covers were there except the ones that the Nook doesn't see.

Is there anyway to extract the cover from the calibre metadata and copy it to that folder? And then will the Nook will recognize it?

2) I know that if I edit metadata on calibre, it won't "overwrite" the book's metadata on the Nook (I already asked that one) but now that my books are on the SD card, have I overcome that issue?

Thanks for the help!

[jocampo]

Hi,

I honestly don't have the answer to your question, but if I was you, I would post your question in the Calibre subforum. Even though it is Nook's related, you may get a faster and better response there.

[afv011]

The simplest way I found to fix this issue is with Sigil, following the steps described in this blog (by one of the Sigil devs).

First open the EPUB with Sigil and make sure the cover is properly set. Right click on the image in the Book Browser and under Add Semantics choose Cover Image if it is not already checked. This will add the meta element defining the cover to the OPF. Save and quit Sigil. That’s it, your done. However, be sure you’re not using Sigil version 0.4.0. You need to be using 0.4.1 or greater.