cover images
BK Marcus
As we put ePubs together, it's good to know the best resources for the highest-resolution (or just biggest) versions of our book-cover images.
These are
Here's how to get the best cover image for Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve:
Go to http://picasaweb.google.com/MisesInstitute/BookCovers# and right-click (or control-click, for those of us w/o multibutton mice) the thumbnail image of the cover to view the image by itself:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AcGiAYdIaHI/StcwAZdI-NI/AAAAAAAADfY/hPzk6McVmKI/s128/DVDFed.jpg
The last two parts of that file path are unnecessary. DVDFed.jpg just makes it easier for you to save the image with an appropriate filename, and s128 seems to be Picassa's way of telling the server to show a thumbnail image 128 pixels high. Take out the s128 and you get a full-sized version of this cover image:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AcGiAYdIaHI/StcwAZdI-NI/AAAAAAAADfY/hPzk6McVmKI/DVDFed.jpg
We don't have all our book covers on Picassa. So sometimes you have to grab a cover image from Amazon instead. If you search Amazon for Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, you'll get a thumbnail image:
Or if you go to the book page, you'll get a medium-sized version:
Amazon puts all it's resizing and other display code between the two periods in the filename. Strip that stuff out and you get their biggest online copy of the image:
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B.K. Marcus
Managing Editor, Mises.org
Ludwig von Mises Institute