
The advantage of EPUB and MOBI is that both formats display reflowable content (the text adjusts to fit the size of the screen on your reading device) as well as fixed-width layout. Amazon’s Kindle uses MOBI, a software package created by the French company Mobipocket, which was bought by Amazon in 2005. Apple’s iBooks, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, Adobe Digital Editions, and Aldiko on Android all support EPUB. Now you simply need to download the art, then use your favorite program (such as Sigil or Calibre) to insert it into your favorite eBook.EPUB and MOBI are the most common formats for reading eBooks on eReader devices and tablets. If high resolution artwork exists, you should now see it. Once you’ve done this, hit Enter to load the new URL. Just keep trying larger values until you get the size you want.

Unfortunately, there is no way to know how high you can go. In this case, w=800 and h=900 will give us much higher quality artwork. To get high resolution artwork, we simply need to change the width and height part to something else. You should see something like as shown above.

Go to the URL bar and highlight the URL, then go to the very end of the URL. While this is obviously too small to be useful, but the URL of this does give us an easy way to access high resolution artwork, if available. You should now see the thumbnail image (in new versions of Firefox it will be shown against a black background, as you can see below).

In Chrome, right-click on the image and choose Open image in a new tab. Now right-click the small cover art thumbnail and choose the View Image option.

Go ahead and click the correct result, which will take you to that product’s page. Next, search for the book you’re interested in finding cover art for as mentioned, we’ll use Orson Scott Card’s Enchantment, as we know high resolution artwork is present, but feel free to search for whatever book you want. We’ll be using Enchantment as our example, but you can – of course – use any book you want.įirst, head to the Google Play book store. And while you won’t find every book’s artwork, you will find a large number of them. Thankfully, just as it’s possible to download high quality album art from the Google Play music store (formerly the Android Market Store), you can use the Google Play book store to get high resolution artwork perfectly suitable for inserting into your ebook.
