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Getting thumbnail covers on Sony
Has anyone have trouble having covers changed with this plugin show up correctly on Sony ereaders? I used this plugin, yet the covers that show up on my ereader show the original covers rather than the covers I changed them to with this plugin.
I do not wish to convert the books EPUB to EPUB, so I'm hoping there's something I'm doing wrong that could be fixed. Thanks for the consideration. |
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Did you delete the books from your reader and resend the fixed books?
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Yes, I even cleared the entire library on my second attempt. Though I need to qualify this that the Modify plugin helps replace some covers, but not for others. I can't figure out why.
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If after using the Insert/replace cover option of this plugin (for which there are no known cases of it *not* putting a cover into an ePub) you will see the cover in the ebook using the calibre viewer. Anything outside of that in terms of what you see on your device is nothing to do with this plugin.
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Yea I believe you're correct. I went ahead and did the unthinkable of converting EPUB to EPUB on the books that I had trouble replacing covers and my reader still had trouble rendering the covers and thumbnails. I just can't explain why.
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I suggest you go hunting in the Devices subforum, as I said it isn't anything to do with this plugin which does its job of inserting the cover into the book and setting necessary metadata to identify it. I don't use a Sony ereader myself to give you a direct answer. Good luck....
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There are 2 checkboxes:
Option 1 will create a thumbnail from the cover set in calibre and send it to the Sony whenever you send a book (any format) to your device. It ignores whatever cover may actually be inside the book - epub in your case. Option 2 goes a step further and will refresh all your thumbnails every single time you connect the device, i.e. no books need to be sent. The refreshed thumbnails are created from the cover you currently have set in calibre at the time you connect. Once again, any cover inside the book is ignored. Option 2 will only work if you have set Prefs - Sending books to device - Metadata management to Automatic. Option 2 ensures that your Sony and calibre are always in sync as regards thumbnails but may take a long time to run every time you connect if you have a lot of books on your device. Option 1 is faster but only sends the thumbnail when you send-to-device. Take your pick ![]() A reasonable compromise is to choose Option 2, connect your device to get everything in sync, then after you've disconnected go back to Option 1. |
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I've never had a problem with the cover on my 650. I do not have either of the thumbnail options check for the Sony driver for my 650.
What I suggest is to take the cover image of an ePub that's not properly displaying and load it into an image editor and resave it as an RGB jpeg. |
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The device driver checkboxes are particularly helpful for:
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My original response to Afrosheen was purely about making sure the Sony thumbnails were correct regardless of what cover is inside each book. Your response implied that the Sony device driver thumbnail options weren't useful. Perhaps I misread your intent.
Your suggestion re: the image editor may well be good advice if forcing a correct page-1 cover is essential for other purposes, e.g so it can be used as a current-book-screensaver. |
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Making sure the cover image options are correct and then saving as JPG is the way to do it. |
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