Images?


Book images come initially from the web, they can come from the camera or a phone picture
When an image is downloaded from the link, its source is remembered
they can be edited from the Edit Details Screen


Where are they?


They are stored on the internal storage area
Change the location in the Settings Screen
They are numbered according to the Book ID as shown on the Edit Details Screen
this is also the ID seen in Exports
When the images are on the SD card, they be externally accessed and edited


Taking a Picture of Your Book


camera screen

From the Edit Details Screen, via the Image Menu
you can take a picture with your phone's camera
The picture stored will be a reduced size version of the picture you take
If you need to adjust the picture afterwards, see the editing section


Using an Existing Image as the Book Image


gallery screen

From the Edit Details Screen, via the Image Menu
you can choose a picture from the gallery to be your Book image
The picture will be an exact copy of the picture you select

If you need to adjust the picture afterwards, see the editing section


Showing Images in the Books Screen


Books screen

The 'Show Images in List' setting controls if images are shown in the Books Screen
This also includes the Filtered Screen and the Search Screen
you can use the Reload Missing Images menu option to download them
Showing Images can sometimes slow down the displaying and scrolling of the list


Seeing the Images from the Gallery Viewer


gallery screen


The 'See Images in Gallery' setting controls if images are visible to the Gallery Viewer
You can choose if the images used for Book covers are visible to the phones gallery viewer
The gallery viewer should pick the changes up automatically, but you may need to restart it on some phones
Hiding the images from the viewer may speed up some viewers if you have a lot of images for the app


sync gallery

Use the 'Sync With Gallery' setting to re-sync the images with the gallery manually


Accessing and Editing Images


gallery screen

Images can be accessed from

  • the inbuilt Gallery Viewer
  • directly from a file explorer
  • directly from a computer (files are on the Internal Storage area)

Images are numbered according to the Book ID as shown on the Edit Details Screen
this is the ID seen on the files and also in the Export Screen
The images can be hidden from the Gallery Viewer using the 'See Images In Gallery' setting

Pressing this setting, toggles if the gallery can see the app images
the Gallery app may need restarting to pick up the changes
Various apps offer the ability to edit image files
most will provide functions such as rotate, auto-contrast and crop
You can start an image editing app directly from the Image Menu on the Edit Details Screen
note that the Gallery Viewer will save new images with a -1 or -2 etc suffix when accessed directly;
in these cases delete the un-suffixed file and rename the suffixed file to have no suffixes
eg. an original file '789.jpg', when edited via Gallery Viewer, creates a file '789-1.jpg'
delete the original '789.jpg' file and then rename '789-1.jpg' to '789.jpg'
the Book Library App will use the '789.jpg' file next time it displays the image



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