Find covers

Find covers for all your books#

1. Open Settings → Library Hub → Notes and, under Covers, select Find covers…. Or run Sync: Find covers for book notes.
2. Each book note without a cover gets one, saved in Books/Covers and linked from the note's cover property.

Covers are looked for in this order:

1. Calibre's own cover.
2. Open Library, by ISBN, then by title and author.
3. Google Books, only if you add a Google Books API key. Google gives no covers without one. The key is kept in Obsidian's keychain.

You can turn the online lookups off in the same group of settings.

Where covers show#

Under the title of each book note (turn this off with Show covers in book notes), on shelf cards and on the reading list.

Replace a cover#

Select the button on the cover in a book note, or run This book: Replace cover. Choose an image file, paste an image's address, or pick one of the covers found online.

You can replace Calibre's cover too. Calibre's old cover is kept, so undo restores it.

Send covers back to Calibre#

A cover found online can be queued for Calibre when Calibre has none. This is off by default. Queued covers are written like any other change: see Changes to Calibre, and undo.

Related#

• Privacy and costs