![]() The writing in this blog is dedicated to the public domain via the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, and is thus free of copyright restrictions worldwide. Then Calibre will take a correct “screenshot” and all will be well.īeats me why Calibre doesn’t just use the. The solution: explicitly style the HTML in your cover page to remove all margins and text-indent. ![]() Here’s the problem: if your cover page has margins, or if you, for example, wrapped your cover image tag in a p tag that has a text-indent style, the “screenshot” of the cover page will display those margins! Instead, it opens up the cover page in the epub-usually the first xhtml file in the epub-then takes a “screenshot” of it to use as the cover image. The ebook-convert command-line tool that ships with Calibre doesn’t actually use the cover image in the epub’s metadata. Sometimes the image would be offset by a top and left border, sometimes by a left and right border-it all seemed pretty random.Īfter messing around a bit, I discovered the problem. Calibre does a really good job of this, but every now and then I’d get a cover, or cover thumbnail, that would have a bizarre white border around the image. Because Kindles are dumb, I have to convert my ebooks from epub to mobi so that the Kindle can read them. I have a Kindle but maintain my entire ebook library as epub files. mobi ebooks converted with Calibre February 5 th, 2013 I’m a software developer who runs Scribophile, an online writing group for serious writers, Writerfolio, an online writing portfolio service for freelancers, and Standard Ebooks, an open source project that produces liberated ebooks for the true book lover. Youll have many options when you convert e-book files from one format to another. Calibre contains all the tools you need to download e-books to your device, read e-books, and organize e-books into categories. mobi ebooks converted with Calibre - Alex Cabal Alex Cabal Calibre is an open-source ePUB converter and e-book library management app.
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