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Sumeet Deshmukh
Asked: 2017-05-02 01:44:21 +0800 CST

Can I make nautilus show book covers as thumbnails for Epub files?

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The Problem

Can I make nautilus show thumbnails of book covers for files in .epub format?

It shows thumbnails for pdf files but not .epub. Is this achievable by adding a thumbnailer?

Each of these .epub files has a cover.jpeg file inside it.

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Example Epub file (Google Drive)

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    No need to worry about scripts. do everything one by one

     sudo apt-get install python-pil

    Now download this file from epub-thumbnailer GitHub page

    now extract that file to a folder, and go into the extracted folder, Right click in empty space and select Open in Terminal and type the following command

    sudo python install.py install
nautilus -q

    now check your Epub files they should have thumbnails

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  2. It works like a charm in Ubuntu 22.04.01

    $ lsb_release -a 
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release:    22.04
Codename:   jammy

$ python --version
Python 3.10.4

    Step by step instructions

    1. Clone the epub-thumbnailer projectgit clone https://github.com/marianosimone/epub-thumbnailer.git
    2. Change directory cd epub-thumbnailer/
    3. Install Pillow pip install Pillow
    4. Install epub-thumbnailer sudo python3 install.py install
    Checking dependencies ...

Required dependencies:
    Python Imaging Library .......
OK

Installing epub-thumbnailer to /usr/bin/ ...
OK
Installing thumbnailer hook in /usr/share/thumbnailers ...
OK
You might have to restart your file manager for the thumbnailer to be activated.
    1. Clear the cache rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails
    2. Restart your file manager
    3. Done!
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