/epub-thumbnailer

Script to extract the cover of an epub book and create a thumbnail for it

Primary LanguagePython

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

How to install?
1. Make sure epub-thumbnailer is executable
chmod +x epub-thumbnailer

2. Copy epub-thumbnailer to /usr/bin
sudo cp epub-thumbnailer /usr/bin

3. Copy epub-thumbnailer.schemas to /usr/share/gconf/schemas/
sudo cp epub-thumbnailer.schemas /usr/share/gconf/schemas/

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

5. Restart nautilus
killall -9 nautilus && nautilus

More info
See http://0pointer.com.ar/epub-thumbnailer