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How to set a cover for KUAL?
Is there any way to set a cover for KUAL as it was in older versions?
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cearp is working on it. See this post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...31&postcount=6 |
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Here you go!
Just a cheap and quick extension to set and unset the cover for KUAL. As always, look through the shell script files and see what they're actually doing, use at your own risk. Basically just copies this image (already in the zip) to /mnt/us/system/thumbnails/ and applies that thumbnail path to ALL of the records (you likely just have 1) that have files ending in .kual, in cc.db. Reboots after the operation, to refresh the library to get the cover to show. I'm sure there's a better way to do that that rebooting, so if anyone knows - tell me please! Last edited by cearp; 05-11-2022 at 04:14 PM. |
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Thanks cearp, works great!
Quick question: do you reckon this technique could be used to add a cover to any book, or is it just possible for KUAL? I'm asking because since version 5.8.5, it hasn't been possible to have covers on AZW3 files downloaded through the Kindle cloud (the issue is summarized here). Several people (myself included) would be very interested in a way to bring back covers for those books! |
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In the specific situation you mention, this is what I envision the steps would be for possible solution, in the form of a KUAL extension:
That would work well and not be so complicated for actual AZW files which have the ASIN present. If they don't, then we don't have so much to work with - unless the file is not drm protected, then we could extract the cover ourselves, but that would be more work. Just to make it clear though, I won't develop this idea ![]() |
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1)Upscaled KUAL image to 1012x1320 ![]() 2)now scripts using thumbnail_kual_portrait.jpg from kualcoversetter folder(no more moving file in system/thumbnails/) just put kualcoversetter folder to extensions |
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Yes of course, didn’t mean to imply that I was expecting you to implement it, sorry if it came through this way ![]() ![]() |
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That script (ExtractCoverThumbs) can still do the job of extracting the cover and creating the thumbnail. So you would be left with "just" that final step of adding information into cc.db.
And unlike ScreenSaver hack's cover extracting code ExtractCoverThumbs correctly does its job for Calibre (& Amazon Previewer) generated KFX books ![]() Last edited by shamanNS; 05-14-2022 at 07:05 AM. |
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Patches welcome to update that bit of code, because I think someone mentioned it to me in a PM, and I had completely forgotten about it ;o).
(As should be painfully obvious, I also don't really have time to deal with it anyway ^p^). |
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I checked in cc.db and the change has been made but somehow the thumbnail doesn't appear in the library. ![]() |
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Thank you for good picture! Today I have modified your extension to set skins for both KUAL and KOL. Now no reboot needed (image change after exit from KUAL), and image not deleted from extention folder after delete KUAL/KOL cover. Tested on my PW5. |
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