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Just did a file sync with my Scribe in 7.12 and the thumbnails for newly added books compressed into a square shape. Anyone else experience this?
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It’s copying a jpg with a certain name to the system/thumbnails folder on the scribe.
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If you meant 'sent via email' (send to kindle service) you need to send ePub (with a cover) to get cover thumbnails. PDFs that get converted to Print Replica format will not have cover thumbnails after downloading. I just had a chance to test with W11 and calibre 7.11. It works as expected with AZW3, and cover thumbnail appears in Library. Again, if you send PDF it will not have a cover thumbnail. Kindles don't support that. |
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I just tried on 7.12 and got the same result...square shaped thumbnail, maybe half the height of regular ones next to it.
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I have seen this a few times, but they always assume the expected height after some time elapses.
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Same here, see screenshot, showing covers before update and the one after (Service Model).
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I had one squarish thumbnail, checked it in calibre and sure enough its thumbnail was square there as well. I updated the thumbnail and connected to send the fixed thumbnail.
But after calibre synced all of the side loaded books now have square cover thumbnails. It turns out that all of the cover thumbnails in the amazon-cover-bug folder are square! Calibre 'restored' these on reconnect, overwriting the rectangular ones. So after removing the side loaded books, re-sending some new ones, and removing amazon-cover-bug folder, I once again have rectangular thumbnails. I would need to rebuild the book with square thumbnail it seems, changing metadata had no effect. It must still be the case Kovid does not have a Scribe to test on. Last edited by tomsem; 06-05-2024 at 12:32 PM. |
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Kovid committed a fix for the square thumbnail problem several days ago: MTP driver: Preserve cover aspect ratio for thumbnail generation. Fixes #2067755 Thumbnails for Kindle Scribe are resized and look weird (https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/2067755) so it should be in the next release of calibre.
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