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[Enhancement]: Ability to set a cover for Collections #1716
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Originally created by @frigvid on GitHub (Feb 6, 2024).
Describe the feature/enhancement
This is pretty low-priority, but I'd like to be able to set covers for collections. Some of the books have I own have come from Humble Bundle, and I like adding those to Collections so that I don't forget. And I also add some books to other collections for categorizing some types of books together with others for easier browsing when wanted.
I couldn't find an open or closed feature request for this, and I haven't found anything in the docs either, so hopefully I'm not asking for something that's already included in the project.
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2024):
I know this has been brought up before but it may have been in Discord or elsewhere because I can't find it in Github. It has also been brought up to allow setting a custom series cover but I couldn't find that discussion either.
The main issue with this is the collections are designed to be a specific aspect ratio (2:1). If we want to allow different aspect ratios for different collections depending on whether you added a cover or not then that is going to get messy with how the bookshelves are currently calculating the number of items to show per row.
If we allowed a custom collection cover and forced the aspect ratio to stay 2:1 then that is more realistic in the short term but I'm not sure how useful that is.
@frigvid commented on GitHub (Feb 19, 2024):
I think it's fine to simply keep it as-is in terms of size or aspect ratio requirements. So long as it's documented, such things aren't really problems, so long as you do get an error pop-up of some kind in-application warning the end-user that you the image was (for example) bigger than some x by z resolution. It'd be nice if the back-end could convert an uploaded picture, though that's significantly more work than simply doing as collections already do; with collections of one having the size of one book's cover, and two side-by-side if more than one is added.
For my personal use-case, I've picked up a good few book bundles from Humble Bundle, and all I'd like to do is grab the images of those. I'm personally fine with just jumping into any image editor and modifying the image.
@chyron8472 commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2025):
I have an idea. Could you set it so that the Series Cover is first (top) on the collections image, with the books in said series behind it; while the series cover by itself is shown in the Library (since that is 1:1)?
If you had two books in a series and a series cover, there would be three images in the spot for that series on the Series tab.
For example:
Except that in this example the number of books shown in the corner should be "2", not "3".
@chyron8472 commented on GitHub (Mar 13, 2025):
There could be a checkbox in a given series' page, perhaps in the kebab menu, that says "Show Series Cover" or somesuch, and what it does is add a sort of placeholder book to the start of the series which you can pencil-edit to add/change/remove the cover. Said cover could just have a value in the series of -1 or 0 or something.
Perhaps said placeholder-book could also be where additional metadata for the series could be added or changed.
@chyron8472 commented on GitHub (Mar 13, 2025):
I'm actually currently using series covers by inserting a sort of placeholder book. I added books that are near-zero-length to my Library, then added each book to the start of a given series (as series num 0). Then I added the desired cover to said book.