05-20-2019, 04:48 PM | #1 |
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Remove thumbnails from Calibre Catalog?
I want to make a catalog of all my books in calibre in MOBI format so that it appears as a periodical on my Kindle. However when I do so the thumbnail book covers overlap with other text making it unreadable. I've tested with azw3 format and that doesn't have the same issue, but then it's not in periodical format. I tried to decrease the thumbnail size but it seems the smallest is 1 inch. Is there a way to decrease the size or just remove the thumbnails altogether?
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05-20-2019, 08:00 PM | #2 |
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Kludge suggestion; what about generating it in the azw3 format and then using calibre's converter and converting the azw3 to mobi?
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05-20-2019, 08:14 PM | #3 |
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I think that would probably save it in book format rather than as a periodical, but I'll test it out when I get home anyway - thanks for the suggestion
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05-20-2019, 10:08 PM | #4 |
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how are you making the catalog in periodical format?
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05-20-2019, 10:12 PM | #5 |
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05-20-2019, 10:15 PM | #6 |
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Also I used to have a Kindle paperwhite and the periodical catalogs were displayed fine on that, so it could be that it's a Kindle Voyage issue
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05-21-2019, 04:51 AM | #7 |
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Sorry I dont have any insight to offer, I dont deal the catalog code. I can tell you that you cannot convert to azw3 and then MOBI that will lose periodical formatting. Sadly amazon only supports periodical formatting for MOBI, not azw3
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05-21-2019, 05:49 AM | #8 |
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Update: I've managed to remove the thumbnails completely by using a custom catalog template file (following instructions in this thread https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=118556). I just removed the text {thumb} from the default template and generated a new catalog with no thumbnails - I think I actually prefer it this way as the covers were always quite small and didn't look great on a black and white Kindle screen anyway.
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05-21-2019, 10:04 AM | #9 |
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I am curious. What is the advantage of having the catalog be in periodical format?
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How do you change a catalog to periodical format anyway? Is it just as simple as changing MOBI to POBI or does it use a different tag (e.g. [EBOK], [PDOC])? I tend to generate EPUB catalog and then convert to MOBI because I copy the catalog to the iPad, as well. |
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05-21-2019, 12:03 PM | #11 |
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There is a bunch of internal stuff in the MOBI file that makes it a periodical. Simply changing the extension is not sufficient.
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05-21-2019, 04:22 PM | #12 |
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For me it's easier to navigate, it appears in the periodical section on Kindle so I can find it easily rather than trudging through my library, and it doesn't have a percentage read like a book file (which always used to really irritate me)
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