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1bibliotech
Mar 17, 2012, 1:54 pm

I have one book that will show the cover picture when I am looking at the book info page but not when I look at "Your Books" by cover page. What causes this? how can it be fixed? The title is Living With Intensity. My account name is bibliotech.

2Collectorator
Mar 17, 2012, 2:08 pm

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3eromsted
Edited: Mar 17, 2012, 3:21 pm

Confirmed, I think. Look at this search for "living" in bibliotech's library in cover view. The results say their are 19 books but only 18 display and there is a blank spot (really blank, not a generic cover) in the list.

4Collectorator
Mar 17, 2012, 2:19 pm

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5eromsted
Mar 17, 2012, 3:22 pm

Hmmm. Browser related? Looking at the link above in Firefox or Safari for the Mac I don't see a cover for Living with Intensity.

Note: I mistakenly wrote "intensity" instead of "living" above but the search was always for "living." Corrected.

6Collectorator
Mar 17, 2012, 3:47 pm

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7eromsted
Mar 17, 2012, 4:02 pm

Maybe everyone has to recalculate it?
It shouldn't work that way. But for the sake of argument I tried, and no change. Here's what I see, sorted by title. Note the whole between "Living History" and "Making Peace." That's where "Living with Intensity" goes in list view.

8brightcopy
Edited: Mar 17, 2012, 7:59 pm

This is the same problem as here:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/134301#3295992

The problem is that amazon is returning a blank 1x1 pixel graphic for the cover for a certain size.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0910707898.01._SX99_SY142_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

The solution (or at least a workaround): switch your cover to a non-amazon one. I have uploaded the amazon one to the member-uploaded section. Switch to that one. Let me know when you do so I can delete the book from my catalog.

9Collectorator
Mar 17, 2012, 9:20 pm

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10eromsted
Mar 17, 2012, 9:31 pm

>9 Collectorator:
You must have your covers in cover view set to a different size.

Following brightcopy's message I tried adjusting the size up and down and found that the cover is missing only at my default size. Any bigger or smaller and it appears.

11Collectorator
Mar 17, 2012, 10:10 pm

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12brightcopy
Mar 23, 2012, 12:43 pm

Well, it's been about a week, and you have yet to change your cover, bibliotech. I am removing my copy, which will eventually remove the cover I uploaded. If you still want to change it, enter this under the "Grab by URL" box and click Grab:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0910707898.jpg