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When browsing in Windows it is often nice to be able to see the cover pages for your eBooks. User Scruffy has found a way to GREATLY help with the task.

[edit]How to do it

[edit]Win XP

First of all, get CDisplayEx - http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdisplayexInstalling this, and using the included batchfile adds CDispShell.dll to your system. This will generate thumbnails of .cbr and .cbz files (which are comic formats, but really are rar and zip formats with images inside)

Now, let's add real zip and rar archives:

Create a file named thumbs.reg and put into itCode:

This adds .zip and .rar, but let's take a step further, because .epub is really a zip file too:Code:

[edit]Windows 7

For Windows 7 use CBX Shell (CBR, CBR - thumbnails) as a alternative to CDisplayEx - Thumbnails function. It is likely that this tool will work on earlier Windows versions as well.

Is easy is just install the CBX Shell and create a thumbs.reg with this code:

Open Epub Windows 10

if this code does not work use regedit to look for '.cbz' and then replace/rename the '.cbz' to '.epub'

[edit]Common comments

(obviously, you see the pattern, if you have other extensions you wish to 'cover', which are really 'hidden in a zip' formats, such as .odt, just use the above, changing the .epub)

Clicking on the .reg file will ask you if you want to install these entries into your registry. Be warned, you could hurt your windows install doing the wrong thing if you don't know what you are doing. Not that the above will, but a disclaimer is in order here!!!! All the above does is point Windows to the DLL above (installed by CDisplayEx) for each of these extensions. (If you don't have winrar, but use 7zip for example, you might want to also do .rar instead of Winrar in the above)

The net effect is that the 'first' image will now be the thumbnail... so make sure the cover image is named with 00Cover, or otherwise numerically+alphabetically first.

Magically: covers when looking at the files in explorer!

[edit]Windows 10

After unsuccessfully trying everything for windows 10 64 bit and it still not working, the following finally worked for me ComputerHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.epubShellEx, adding the following keys and their values

[edit]File icon

It is also possible to make a unique icon for Windows in the icon view. For more information see the MobileRead thread on this subject.

[edit]See Also

• MobileRead forum thread comment here

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29.Oct.2017
Last week we saw how to search for text in EPUB books. We now complete the shell integration for this popular ebook format with a thumbnail handler and a column handler for ebook information. Thumbnails will work in windows explorer too, but author/title information will be only available in xplorer².

EPUB thumbnail handler
As far as I can tell there is no thumbnail shell extension for EPUB in particular, but as this is just a disguised ZIP archive file, we can use CBX Shell that serves thumbnail previews for ZIP and RAR image archives (CBZ / CBR), and add a registry key to handle EPUB thumbnails with the capable CBXShell handler:

For your convenience I made a small installer that first installs CBXShell then adds the above snippet to your registry:

Minimum requirements: windows XP or later (32 or 64 bit)

EPUB book information as column handler
AFAIK there's no generic ebook property handler to supply information like title and book author. To make our life easier let's use the eBook Info WDX plugin that can be used via xplorer² / Total Commander plugin bridge. This plugin does all popular ebook formats so we go a long way with just one installation. Here are step by step instructions:

1. Download eBook Info WDX plugin. This is a zip archive that doesn't need installation.
   
2. Right click on eBookInfoWDX.zip (say it's in the DOWNLOADS folder) and choose Extract all menu command to uncompress the plugin and note the extraction path e.g. C:UsersYouDownloadseBookInfoWDX.
   
3. Download xplorer² plugin helper (if you don't have it) and run it.
   
4. Press <INS> key or use File > Browse for plugins menu and browse the folder where you extracted the plugin (step 2)
   
5. Choose the plugin file eBookInfo.wdx (you can ignore the x64 warning) and click OK to import it. Click on Apply button to save the changes.

Epub Thumbnail Windows 10

Steps 1-5 are rather tedious, but you only have to do them one time. When you restart xplorer² you will find columns called Title.eBookInfo, Author.eBookInfo and others, which you can select with Select columns menu command (right click on a pane's column header).

With these EPUB handlers and the thumbnail/attribute handlers for kindle books (AZW, MOBI, PRC), we can have an all mod cons shell experience for all popular ebook formats as such:

Epub Thumbnail Preview Windows 10

Pdf Icon Preview Windows 10