Add Cover Art to a Librivox Book Feed

Add Cover Art to a Librivox book feed.md

Add Cover Art to a Librivox feed.

Many books at http://librivox.org have generic cover art. The cover art URL is in the rss file and can be changed in a simple way.

example: iOS GoodReader, Dropbox, and Downcast apps

• in Mobile Safari goto http://librivox.org/second-variety-by-philip-k-dick/

• press "RSS Feed" then tap Copy ( the url http://librivox.org/rss/4248 is copied to clipboard, the .rss will be added for you later )

• open GoodReader, goto "Web Downloads", press "Enter URL", this is filled in for you, press OK.

• notice in "Recent Downloads" you have 4248.rss in GoodReader now. find it in your downloads folder.

• quick tap this file and select "TXT Viewer" in the popup. you now see text inside of 4248.rss

• not far from the top of the file, look for this line:

<itunes:image href="http://librivox.org/librivox_logo.jpg" />

• if you see this exact line "librivox_logo.jpg" this book has generic cover art. ( BUT IF YOU SEE SOME OTHER URL THERE, THE BOOK ALREADY HAS DECENT COVER ART, so you got lucky and do not need any of this.)

• Assume you find that exact line with the link to the generic cover art.

• Press the edit button at the bottom, ( the 4th button from left, a square with a pencil in it ).

minimize GoodReader for now.

Get a link to some cover art.

• our example librivox book page http://librivox.org/second-variety-by-philip-k-dick/ is one of the few pages with some cover art on the page.

• under the image, there are 2 links, do NOT tap the 1st one because it is a PDF no good

• long tap on the 2nd link "Download Album Art" and tap Copy - this will put the link http://www.archive.org/download/LibrivoxCdCoverArt7/second_variety_1012.jpg in the clipboard for you.

ok you have a link to some cover art!

Back to GoodReader

• not far from the top of the file, look for this line

<itunes:image href="http://librivox.org/librivox_logo.jpg" />

• select the URL inside the quotes,

• backspace over it to delete it,

• tap inside the quotes,

• press paste,

• from the clipboard is pasted http://www.archive.org/download/LibrivoxCdCoverArt7/second_variety_1012.jpg

• press Save, press Close

you just put some useful cover are in there!

still in GoodReader, Put the fixed 4248.rss to dropbox:

• long tap 4248.rss , Open In, select the DropBox app,

In the DropBox app

• tap destination Public, it will upload

• you should see it at the top of your "recent" uploads.

• tap the file. ( do not worry if the app wont display the contents ),

• tap the arrow button near top right, tap copy link to clipboard.

Open DownCast App

• tap the + button

• enter podcast manually

• that link will be filled in for you BUT YOU MUST ADD THIS TO THE END OF IT ?dl=1

• tap subscribe.

Now you have a librivox audiobook with some COVER ART!