Covers Not Showing With Side Loaded Books

[DCLOVELL]

This is a minor annoyance.

I have been purchasing some books from Kobo as they have had some great promo codes lately.  I download them to my computer and side load them to my Simple Touch via ADE.  They transfer to my Nook no problem, but in my library, I get a generic book cover with the name of the book on it.  This has also happened with a book from the library.

Is this a glitch?  Am I going something wrong?

I have tried loading to both, an SD card and to the mail memory and get the same results.

Any help is appreciated!

[nlstein]

This has happened to me also. The answer seems to be that the cover is not part of the actual book epub but is a separate file. The solution is to use Calibre to combine the two files and then transfer. I have a large Calibre library and I always re-format any book I'm going to transfer to my Nook before the actual transfer. While Calibre questions if I "really" want to re-format the book that is already in ebub format, doing so ALWAYS works and I end up with the right cover on my Nook. Of course, you need to have the right cover in the Calibre library first, which Calibre does very easilly.

[DCLOVELL]

Thanks for the info.  So am I correct in saying that this will only work for non-DRM books through Calibre.

[nlstein]

You are correct. Calibre will not modify boooks with DRM.