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How to add a cover to an EPUB / PDF / MOBI

book

EPUB, PDF and Kindlle MOBI books converted from other formats or
downloaded from torrent sites are sometimes cover-missing, which
inevitably makes the whole eBook-reading journey less satisfactory. Take it
easy. Here I will explain how to add a cover to an EPUB / PDF / MOBI
book with free Calibre.

And here is a guide post focus on change Kindle book's cover image.

1. Download and install Calibre on your computer.

2. Launch Calibre and drag & drop your cover-missing books to it.

3. Select a book and click “Edit metadata” on top menu bar.

4. Select “Download cover” on the following window. Calibre will auto
search for the EPUB (PDF / MOBI) cover online. You can edit book title,
author, etc on this window as well.

5. Click to select a cover from the search results and click “OK”.
6. The cover will get updated at once. Click “OK”.

7. Go back to the main panel, you will find the cover added to the EPUB
book accordingly.
If you have got a cover on your computer, you can also select “Browse” on
“Edit Metadata” screen to add cover.

The cover will be added as well. Click “OK” to go back to the main screen.
Covers have been added to the EPUB and PDF books.

However, things are not done yet!

As long as you select one eBook and click “Click to open” on the right
hand side to check the cover-added EPUB / PDF book, you will find the
cover is missing still!

I noticed this problem when I tried to check the result by deleting the
original version from Calbre and adding the newly generated EPUB and
PDF to it. To my surprise, the covers of both files were missing still. The
covers haven't been integrated to both eBooks!

Then how to successfully add a cover to an EPUB / PDF / MOBI eBook?

It’s easy. Just one more step.

When finishing adding covers to EPUB / PDF / MOBI books, don’t forget
to select the title and convert the book to its original format again. For
example, if the original is PDF, convert it to PDF again after adding a cover
to it.
Set the “Output format” as PDF (according to the original) and click “OK” to
convert.

When the status in the lower right corner turns to “0”, the conversion is
done.

Click “Click to open” to get the converted book (PDF), you will find both the
converted PDF and the original one with “original” chars added to the file
name under the output folder.
Add the newly created book (PDF) to Calibre and check again (with all
originals deleted from Calibre). You will find the cover has been
successfully added to the PDF book this time.

Now, two steps to add a cover to an EPUB/PDF/MOBI eBook by yourself:

Edit metadata and convert to its original format. Drop a comment below if
you have any problem.

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Top comments

Boy Tse
2 years ago Shared publicly

good

Đoàn Trọng Hiếu

2 years ago Shared publicly

Thank you for your intructions! It helps me

alot!

Christian Torres-George
3 years ago Shared publicly

Thanks.

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