amazon cover not showing up?

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1omargosh
Mar 15, 2016, 7:46 pm

I recently added this book using Amazon as a source and ISBN 9563041569 to search. There were 2 results in the "Add books" search. Both had covers. I used the first result. Now that the book has been added to my library, though, the cover image is nowhere to be found. And it says there are 0 Amazon covers for that work. I don't recall seeing that behavior in the past. Am I missing something?

2PhaedraB
Mar 15, 2016, 9:04 pm

The Amazon cover for this book isn't exactly an Amazon cover, but a cover that has been uploaded to Amazon by an Amazon user. The automatic system does not "see" these covers.

However, there are a couple of ways to take advantage user-uploaded Amazon covers. You can download the image to your computer, then upload it on the Change Cover page. Or, you can also right-click on the image, select Copy Image Location, then paste that URL into the Grab from the Web field.

3omargosh
Mar 15, 2016, 11:14 pm

Ok. I guess since it showed up in the search results I just expected it to go all the way through. :) It makes sense that user-added covers might work differently though. Guess I just haven't run into this before. Thanks, Phaedra!