10-10-2010, 02:48 AM | #1 |
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Inconsistent Metadata
Hello everyone, I just received the newest Kindle on Friday so that I could take advantage of some of the free ebooks my college gives out. One of my professors gave me the epub files to a few of his books and I used Calibre to convert them to mobi. Later, I noticed that his files didn't have covers. At all. Going back a page after opening it led to a page with a title. So I found the covers on the Internet and updated the metadata so that my Kindle would display the covers instead of a title page when going into the book information. Unfortunately one of the three doesn't seem to update. I've deleted my Kindle's library and Calibre library and re-added the cover image in Calibre and then uploaded it again, but to no avail. Is there anything that I can do? I don't mind not seeing the cover when I open the book, but when I tab over into the book settings I'd like for the little box to have the image. That's all I'm asking. What do I need to do?
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10-10-2010, 03:24 AM | #2 |
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You have to run a conversion (even if it is to the same format) to get the covers inserted into the ebook file. Simply updating the cover in Calibre is not sufficient.
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10-10-2010, 03:27 AM | #3 |
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A long shot but have you tried tabbing back twice?
Some books have a sort of cover that looks like the first page which can be removed by checking the remove first image under structure detection |
10-10-2010, 03:47 AM | #4 |
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Thanks! The reconverting it fixed the problem. I thought that might work, but I was confused why the other two didn't need to be reconverted before showing the cover.
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10-10-2010, 04:53 AM | #5 |
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My guess is that either the epub file already had the cover or (more likely) you downloaded the cover before doing the ePub->mobi conversion for the kindle.
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EPUB metadata: When setting metadata in an EPUB file, if it has a well defined image based cover, update it When I asked for clarification of what this meant he replied That means that if the EPUB file has a <meta name="cover"> element pointing to a cover image in jpg or png format that is not encrypted, it will be updated to the cover stored in the calibre database when saving to disk/sending to device. i.e. some epubs will get their covers updated from your library metadata merely by resending, no conversion necessary.
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10-10-2010, 07:35 AM | #7 |
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10-10-2010, 08:21 AM | #8 |
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Oops! Perhaps I didn't read the OP carefully enough.
I'm not sure about MOBI either, Kovid's statements only mentioned EPUB. However, this was back in July and Calibre improves so fast... |
10-10-2010, 12:31 PM | #9 |
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MOBI files may or may not have their covers updated (it depends on the internals of the file). If they don't you have to reconvert.
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