Tool for recovering missing thumbnails in Cover View on Kindle e-ink devices. The tool does not work on Kindle with firmware 5.8.5 and newer for ebooks downloaded from Kindle Personal Documents Service.
usage: ExtractCoverThumbs [-h] [-V] [-s] [--overwrite-pdoc-thumbs]
[--overwrite-amzn-thumbs] [-o] [--skip-apnx] [-f]
[-z] [-d [DAYS]] [-l] [--mark-real-pages] [-e]
kindle_directory
positional arguments:
kindle_directory directory where is a Kindle Paperwhite mounted
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
-s, --silent print less informations
--overwrite-pdoc-thumbs
overwrite personal documents (PDOC) cover thumbnails
--overwrite-amzn-thumbs
overwrite amzn ebook (EBOK) and book sample (EBSP)
cover thumbnails
-o, --overwrite-apnx overwrite APNX files
--skip-apnx skip generating APNX files
-f, --fix-thumb fix thumbnails for PERSONAL badge
-z, --azw process also AZW files
-d [DAYS], --days [DAYS]
only "younger" ebooks than specified DAYS will be
processed (default: 7 days).
-l, --lubimy-czytac download real pages from lubimyczytac.pl (time-
consuming process!) (only with -d)
--mark-real-pages mark computed pages as real pages (only with -l and
-d)
-e, --eject eject Kindle after completing process
- python -m pip install pillow
- python -m pip install pyinstaller (for compilation only)
- build on Mac (with Python 2.7.x from Homebrew):
pyinstaller -Fn ExtractCoverThumbs_con ~/github/ExtractCoverThumbs/__main__.py
pyinstaller -Fn ExtractCoverThumbs_app --windowed ~/github/ExtractCoverThumbs/gui.pyw
- build on Windows (with Python 2.7.x):
C:\Python27\Scripts\pyinstaller.exe -Fn ExtractCoverThumbs_con .\ExtractCoverThumbs\__main__.py
C:\Python27\Scripts\pyinstaller.exe -Fn ExtractCoverThumbs_win --windowed .\ExtractCoverThumbs\gui.pyw