How to Size a Cover display

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How to Size a Cover display

1JoeB1934
Apr 28, 12:36 pm

When U have a small collection of books I have created I prefer to display their covers, rather than simply list titles.
I got the impression from the last newsletter that there might be a way to design a display of covers so that they fill a complete line.
I have had minimal success using the +- option on settings and the number of rows.

Is there a way to achieve what I want?

2kristilabrie
Apr 29, 7:15 am

Can you clarify what you're looking for when you say "so that they fill a complete line"? Are you looking to get all books in a single Collection on one row, or do you mean that some covers on rows are getting cut off midway, or something else?

3JoeB1934
Apr 29, 7:44 am

>2 kristilabrie: Let's say that I have a list of 16 book covers and I want them displayed in 2 rows that each fill the screen width. Just using the controls about rows and size +/- I can only get 10 covers on one line and 6 on the second line. If I indicate a larger size for each I might well get them on two and a half of a lines

4kristilabrie
Apr 29, 7:48 am

>3 JoeB1934: Ah, I see. I don't know if you can be that precise with your settings, but you could play around with the width of your actual browser window to try and force it. I personally wasn't able to get just 8 covers per row in my own catalog (it jumped from 9 to 7 when I sized my window down).

5gilroy
Apr 29, 3:41 pm

The update for covers that was announced in the newsletter was only for the tags page. It wasn't for the catalog view.