About book covers in Logos

Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell

Hey everyone! here's one for you...

Being a bibliophile, I have a library program (Library Express - an outstanding product) that tracks all my books. Heck, I'm so geeky I even own a barcode scanner to make my life easier when I get a new book!  Among many other things, it  allows one to insert pictures of our books into the catalogue.

Now here's the issue: most of our books in Logos have a cover illustration associated with them (if you open up your library tab for instance, you'll see them there). BUT I can't always find those book covers on the Logos website (so I can save and insert them), mostly because sometimes some of my resources came as part of a package and so are not individually available on the website itself.

So here's the question: those icon graphics I see in Logos 4 have got to be somewhere... does anyone know if there's a directory where they're kept or whatever...?

Thanks!

"Geekily" yours,

Carmen

Rosie Perera

I think they are contained within the metadata database as binary data, not as separate files which you could replace with an image from somewhere else.

Lynden O. Williams

Carmen, you may need to get the covers from other websites.

Todd Phillips

Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell said:

So here's the question: those icon graphics I see in Logos 4 have got to be somewhere... does anyone know if there's a directory where they're kept or whatever...?

If you upload your library to Mark Barnes' bibliographic report website, then you can view your books in a web page: the book cover images are JPEGs which can be easily used elsewhere.

http://www.4-14.org.uk/logos/logos4-bibliographic-report

Mark Barnes

They're in catalogue.db as a binary blob. If that doesn't help(!), the easiest way to get them is to use my bibliographic report to generate them. Once the file is uploaded, run the Table (with covers) report, asking for images in the original size.

Once the page is loaded (which takes a long time) you can them save the page. Make sure you don't save it as one complete MHT file, but as "Webpage, complete" (assuming IE). This will save all the graphics into a folder on your computer, where you can access them to you heart's content, although if Library Express allows you to import them from a URL, that might be a quicker option.

<edit>Todd beat me to it!</edit>