Cover won't change to a new one.

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Cover won't change to a new one.

I put The Road in iBooks and set the cover in iTunes. I decided I wanted a different cover (the newer one) so I deleted the old cover, added the new one and synced it. The cover stayed the same. I deleted it from iTunes and the iPad, put it back in with the new cover and it stayed the same. The most mind boggling thing is when I look at my books from a the other perspective, the cover is the new one! On the book shelf it's the old one 😟

Anyone have this glitch?

Imac, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Apr 6, 2010 6:39 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 8, 2010 8:27 AM in response to SeanR1221

When I was loading books into Itunes and then syncing I noticed that it took 2 syncs for the cover to cross over. I'm not certain why but the book would sync over the first time and the cover on the second time. It was very odd actually to see that.

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Apr 9, 2010 7:36 PM in response to Tom Talley

I tried changing the name of the book, but that didn't help :/

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Deicoon

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Apr 11, 2010 8:14 PM in response to SeanR1221

Thought I had figured it out, I had scynced twice then restored from a back up and it had changed but tried it again and it didn't work... Looks like it updates when it's good and ready and not before.

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Deicoon

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Apr 11, 2010 8:38 PM in response to SeanR1221

Ok, may have figured it out!

Step 1: Make sure you have a backup of your iPad ready. If you don't, go a head and back it up now.
Step 2: From your iPad, delete the book who's cover you wish to change.
Step 3: Change the cover in iTunes and drag the book back to your iPad.
Step 4: Sync your iPad.
Step 5: Restore your iPad from your previous backup.

This seems to fix the cover and, so far, is repeatable ....

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Answer 5

Jun 1, 2010 2:56 AM in response to SeanR1221

I have had this same issue after changing a few covers on some free books from the iBook store. I still have not gotten it to change to the most recent image. Even if I remove the file from iTunes and the iPad. Then download a new copy it will add the image I added with out a sync to iTunes. So there is some point where the iPad makes a backup on itself for book cover images. I think its more of a bug and hopefully will be taken care of in an update.

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danegeld

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Jun 1, 2010 2:09 PM in response to Digitalburn

I've been delving into the mysteries of ePub in recent weeks and what you're seeing is probably the result of the original cover being embedded in the ePub file. An ePub file is really a zip file with some very specific constructs and requirements. There are certain files that must be in certain directories and there's one file (mimetype) that cannot be compressed. Among the files that can be included(though it doesn't have to be) within an ePub archive is a cover graphic. I've also tried to change the covers on ePubs and have done so successfully, but it's not something for the faint-of-heart if you don't know your way around XML, XHTML code, and the ins and outs of zip software.

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