Inkbound 1.3.0
Books can now carry cover art, and they show it off properly on an e-reader.
cover:frontmatter field — point it at an image in the vault (a
path, a bare filename, a[[wikilink]], or an![[embed]]) or at a remote
URL, and the export embeds it as the EPUB 3 cover (properties="cover-image"<meta name="cover">), so the Boox library shelf shows the artwork
instead of a placeholder.
- First-image fallback — no
cover:(or legacycoverUrl:) at all? The
first image embed in the metadata note (outside code fences) becomes the
cover, so existing vaults gain covers with zero frontmatter changes. - Cover page — books with a cover open on a full-page, centered cover
document as the first spine item. The cover page never appears in the table
of contents; alandmarksentry keeps it reachable (epubcheck-clean under
EPUB 3.3 rules, verified with epubcheck 5.3.0). - Formats —
png,jpg/jpeg, andwebpare accepted as covers (all
EPUB 3.3 core media types); anything else degrades with a warning, and a
brokencover:reference never fails an export — the book still builds,
coverless, with a warning naming the file. cover:takes precedence over the legacycoverUrl:when both are
present;coverUrl:alone keeps working exactly as before.
Install manually by downloading the assets below into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/inkbound/, then enable Inkbound in Settings → Community plugins.