Closed Zingam closed 3 years ago
Could you elaborate? I don't have an ereader that supports epub myself to check, but the file explorer I use on Linux shows a title and author for both the PDF and epub files.
As it is easier for me I'll give an example with calibre
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Currently Vulkan Tutorial appears like so in calibre:
Some random book with cover metadata:
And then I added some random image via calibre:
Due to the lack of a cover as seen in calibre on ereaders the Vulkan Tutorial appears as a blank.
https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/1186/how-do-i-add-a-cover-and-other-pictures-to-my-epub
According to https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html all that is needed is:
--epub-cover-image=FILE Use the specified image as the EPUB cover. It is recommended that the image be less than 1000px in width and height. Note that in a Markdown source document you can also specify cover-image in a YAML metadata block (see EPUB Metadata, below).
pandoc -o ../epub/book.epub title.txt ch*.md --epub-cover-image=../images/cover.png
Would something like this be okay as cover image? (I can't really think of anything else.)
Cool! You could always put a screenshot of the end result :) Something of the sort in the style of the cover of the classic guides: https://www.amazon.com/Vulkan-Programming-Guide-Official-Learning-ebook/dp/B01MXGZR73
I like your idea of including the scene in the cover image, but I'm not sure how that works in terms of licensing, so I went for something straightforward:
Fixed in c9c2762559b8730e7188fa73bff76bccf18e9e8e
I suggest to put some kind of Title Image/Page in the ebooks. It actually matters on ereaders as they display it as an icon. For these devices also the meta-data: title, author, etc. matters as can be added via calibre.