Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced

Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by StevePerkins on Saturday August 03, 2019 @12:49AM (#20598734)

For the Amazon-compatible "azw3" files that I'm seeing, I'm curious why the book cover thumbnail images are a separate download from the ebook file itself?

Unless I'm missing a trick, it seems like you have to use Calibre (or some other application) to re-build the "azw3" file with the cover thumbnail properly embedded. Why not just ship the ebook files like that to begin with?

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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by sauntheninja on Saturday August 03, 2019 @07:44AM (#20599928)

Kobo is far easier just download the epub on to your mobile and use the import button from the app and it will automatically get downloaded

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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by mrunkel on Saturday August 03, 2019 @02:24AM (#20598991)

According to the webpage

>>>Thanks to a long-standing bug in the Kindle software, side-loaded ebooks don’t display cover images automatically. "

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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by mrleinad on Saturday August 03, 2019 @07:23AM (#20599844)

You can also transform the epub to a format compatible with Kindle and save a few clicks. The epub contains the cover.

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