Kindle not showing book covers correctly?
If you followed my last guide, you were able to upload your already-paid-for books to your iPhone and use the Kindle app to view them. If your situation was anything like my own, you probably had a problem with the book covers not being displayed correctly. In my case, whatever book I uploaded first was the book cover that Kindle used for every other book.
This was completely unacceptable for me, so I figured out how to fix it once and for all. Unfortunately, it involved more tools and more uploading.
In order to figure out how this worked, I downloaded a free Kindle book: The Art of War. I saw that the book was placed in the same directory as all of my other books, but it added a file to the LibraryCovers directory as well. The name was ominous, it didn’t really mean anything to me. That was until I used some mobi tools (described later) and learned that the name of the file in the LibraryCover directory was a property inside of the book. Specifically, the ASIN property.
Now that I knew how to specify a cover file, all I had to do was convert all of my books to add this new property and then upload the new books and cover files to the iPhone.
The fun starts with following a guide on converting your mobi/prc files back to mobi format, but adding some extra contents: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Mobi2Mobi_GUI_Vista/XP.
Using this guide, I was able to add a keyword/filename to the ASIN property (in the exth property section). After uploading the book to the eBooks directory and the cover to the LibraryCovers directory, I was in business!
Happy tweaking…
