What?

epub-thumbnailer is a simple script that tries to find a cover into an epub file and creates a thumbnail for it.

Why?

Because I want nautilus to display nice thumnails for my epub ebooks, as it does for pdf files

Make sure epub-thumbnailer is executable

chmod +x epub-thumbnailer

Copy epub-thumbnailer to /usr/bin

sudo cp epub-thumbnailer /usr/bin

Copy epub-thumbnailer.schemas to /usr/share/gconf/schemas/

sudo cp epub-thumbnailer.schemas /usr/share/gconf/schemas/

Install the schema

gconftool-2 --install-schema-file /usr/share/gconf/schemas/epub-thumbnailer.schemas

Restart nautilus

killall -9 nautilus && nautilus