Rampant Book Piracyįast forward to today and book piracy is easier and more widespread than ever. When publishers clashed with The Pirate Bay over illegally shared copies, we envisioned that things could get much worse if Kindle-ready pirate sites began to pop up. I've done this for over 30 books so far that had no covers (well, they had that silly Amazon default cover I should say) and ever one of them now shows covers on my device.When Amazon launched the first Kindle fifteen years ago, book piracy was already a common problem. Wait for it.ĭisconnect your Kindle and check to see if the cover is there. Right click the ebook in the Calibre Library list and select Send to Device > Send to Main Memory. Make sure that if you have a version already on the device that doesn't have the cover that you delete all versions of it. Properly wiped fields will say 'Undefined'.

As crazy as this sounds, wiping the published date seems key. I now associate the new sized cover, I delete any special characters out of the title (anything non-alphabetical including :, ()), I clear the ID property AND the published date property. Right click on the title in the list and select Edit Metadata > Edit Metadata Individually. Next, I edit the individual book metadata with Calibre. I use Calibre to associate the new cover in the step below. I have no idea if this uber simple solution will work for you but it is now standard procedure for me and works 100% of the time so far.įirst, and this is a matter of trial and error and I don't think it ultimately matters but since I like to have all my covers the same size from the beginning, I set each book's cover size to 277x416 pixels. I now have every single side-loaded ebook in. I love my new Kindle Paperwhite but the fact that most of my side-loaded books would not show up with their covers irritated the hell out of me.

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