Thumbnail Book Covers do not show up on Nook

[Neil Kaiser]

I had 18 epub books that I fully put through the Calibre program in the proper Library. Of course I used the edit metadata function and made sure every book had a proper graphic cover (that either it had by itself or I downloaded through Calibre). I have the Nook Simple Touch (which I set Calibre up for), and not one of the books had the cover with it when I transfered them to the Nook from the Library using Calibre. (Just a standard transfer to my "A" Card after making sure I had metdata for each book). I also tried transfering to the main device instead of the Card. Any other books that I purchased normally have their covers showing up OK. These 18 books came from reliable ebook sources, and show their covers on my PC Reader. Can you please help me? - I don't know if the jpg's are suppose to transfer to the Nook, but when I checked the folders out on my PC they were not there on the Nook (but they are there in the Library on my PC). I tried pasting one on the Nook in the correct book folder, but it didn't do anything. Then I tried to put it in the Thumbnail Folder on the Nook and it did nothing again. I really would like to see the covers!

Calibre Ver 0.8.39
Windows 7

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

The Nook is very finicky about covers. Run an epub to epub conversion for all
those books in calibre. Then delete them from the nook and resend them via
calibre, you should see the covers.

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[Sander Bogers (j-sander-r)]

My girlfriend uses Calibre with the Nook simple touch and has this problem.

The actual problem is explained here:
http://john.nachtimwald.com/2011/08/21/nook-covers-not-showing-up/

In my opinion it would be great if Calibre would make ebooks nook compatible even if it's B&N ignoring the epub format.
Other readers will work equally well with the files if they are made to match the B&N.

Thanks for all the good work !

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Simply do an epub to epub conversion in calibre before sending your books, the
covers will show up.

[Neil Kaiser (hogboss54)]

Hi Folks,

I am not sure the e-mail addresses are correct, but I had reported a bug
back in February, and have 2 more with the newest release that I would like
to report. I can't seem to find the Version number, but I just upgraded last
week to the latest:

1. When I was trying to convert a PDF File to "PDF" it came up with a
general Failure. I did this several times with two magazines.

2. I was attempting the above conversions to see if I could get the Covers
to show on my new Nook Tablet (a month old). No PDF covers will show. I know
when I encountered this problem with E-Pubs, a conversion to the same format
worked. Any suggestions for PDF Files?

Thank You!

Neil Kaiser
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