Re: [standardebooks] No cover page on epubs

[B Keith]

Not sure what you mean. Standard ebooks’ “standard” is to not put the cover inside the ebook as a page—it’s kind of redundant and unnecessary. 

On Apr 25, 2022, at 4:25 AM, R Green <greenandpl...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm sure this is an obvious question, but why are there no covers (as adevertised) on any downloaded epub files? The .jpg is definately in the epub file (it is visible in the Calibre file browser, for example) but there is no cover xhtml page to which to link the image to.

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[R Green]

The cover is not visible in the Calibre 5.38 viewer (on Linux 20.1). It is displayed in the Book Details section of the Calibre main console but does not automatically appear in the viewer. Instead the first page is titlepage. So in this case perhaps it is necessary to have a dedicated cover page?

[B Keith]

If I understand you correctly, that is feature not a bug. The cover appears when the book is closed but is not included in the contents of the book. A lot of publishers do in fact include the cover inside the contents of the book (as well as a table of contents which we also don’t include in the text) but it isn’t really necessary and so  Standard does not follow that rule.

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