Problem syncing covers

[Maerynn]

Hi! I'm using Calibre 64 bits on my laptop, and Calibre Companion on my Galaxy Tab 3.

My library is safe and sound in my Dropbox account, and I connect to it through the cloud on my Galaxy Tab.

Everything's working perfectly fine so far, except for a tiny detail: the covers I choose in Calibre don't show up once on my tablet.

Any ideas?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Maerynn

Hi! I'm using Calibre 64 bits on my laptop, and Calibre Companion on my Galaxy Tab 3.

My library is safe and sound in my Dropbox account, and I connect to it through the cloud on my Galaxy Tab.

Everything's working perfectly fine so far, except for a tiny detail: the covers I choose in Calibre don't show up once on my tablet.

Any ideas?

I think you are saying that the covers show up in CC but don't show up in the reading app on your tablet. This is normal. The reading app gets the cover from inside the book format. Calibre does not automatically update the book when a cover is replaced in calibre's database and CC is not capable of updating the ebook when it is fetched from the cloud, so the app is seeing the original cover. This is why most CC users do not use the reading app's cover view. CC does not use the cover in the book file.

You have several choices to "fix" this. All of them are ways to ask calibre to update the cover in the book file.

1. Use CC's wireless device connection. If possible, calibre updates the cover in a book when it sent to a device, and calibre considers CC's wireless connection to be a device.
2. If the books are epub, the same thing happens when fetching from calibre's content server.
3. Use calibre's "polish" function to update the cover in the ebook, then fetch it again to the device.
4. Use calibre's "embed metadata" function to update the cover.
5. Convert the book again, for example from epub to epub. This is a sledgehammer approach.

There are lots of threads in the calibre/Library management forum on ways to update covers along with ways to overcome problems.

[Maerynn]

Originally Posted by chaley

I think you are saying that the covers show up in CC but don't show up in the reading app on your tablet. This is normal. The reading app gets the cover from inside the book format. Calibre does not automatically update the book when a cover is replaced in calibre's database and CC is not capable of updating the ebook when it is fetched from the cloud, so the app is seeing the original cover. This is why most CC users do not use the reading app's cover view. CC does not use the cover in the book file.

You have several choices to "fix" this. All of them are ways to ask calibre to update the cover in the book file.

1. Use CC's wireless device connection. If possible, calibre updates the cover in a book when it sent to a device, and calibre considers CC's wireless connection to be a device.
2. If the books are epub, the same thing happens when fetching from calibre's content server.
3. Use calibre's "polish" function to update the cover in the ebook, then fetch it again to the device.
4. Use calibre's "embed metadata" function to update the cover.
5. Convert the book again, for example from epub to epub. This is a sledgehammer approach.

There are lots of threads in the calibre/Library management forum on ways to update covers along with ways to overcome problems.

In fact, what I meant was even I changed the cover in Calibre, it remained the same once in Calibre Companion.

However I fixed the issue by checking the small box allowing Calibre to sync the metadata (can't find it anymore to give you its exact name, sorry.)

Thanks anyway for taking the time to answer me!

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Maerynn

In fact, what I meant was even I changed the cover in Calibre, it remained the same once in Calibre Companion.

However I fixed the issue by checking the small box allowing Calibre to sync the metadata (can't find it anymore to give you its exact name, sorry.

Hmmm...

This is mysterious because as far as I know there is only one setting in calibre related to sending metadata: preferences / metadata management. CC tells calibre to ignore this option, forcing it to "Automatic management". I don't know of any CC option that would affect covers, especially over the cloud connection. And in any event, such an option should not exist or should have no effect when used with CC.

Do you remember in which app you found this check box, calibre or CC?