Change Ugly Covers in iBooks?

Is there any way to change book covers in iBooks or in iTunes? I know there used to be, but I think the feature was removed for some bizarre reason. I've tried all of the methods I've found online, and none of them work anymore.


Is it possible to do this easily without having to do it in Calibre or something similar? I have over 2,500 books, most of which I downloaded from archives like Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, and most of them either have no cover (so it shows a really generic gradient colored background with plain text) or a very poorly made cover. As an artist/designer, aesthetics are so important to me, and my iBooks looks awful because of this. It's disheartening.


Of course, with as many books as I have, doing this with something like Calibre simply isn't feasible. It would take many days to do them all. Why can't I just right click and change the cover to something I like?

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra (10.12.4)

Posted on Sep 5, 2017 5:11 AM

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Sep 6, 2017 1:49 PM in response to picas

Thank you, picas. It does work for me now. I figured out that my iMac was not downloading the books correctly, which is why this would not work. I fixed that by installing the update for Sierra, which allowed the books to download correctly, but the new covers don’t show up on my iPad, which is where I read. I’ll have to look into this new issue. Thank you for your help.

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