Auto-generated cover images for EPUBs
There are tools to add cover images to EPUB files, if you already have the image. The EPUB file embeds some key metadata, like the title and author. What if you had a tool that could extract that metadata, auto-generate an image, and use it as the cover?
So I built that. It’s a small site where you upload EPUB files you’ve downloaded from AO3, the site generates a cover image based on the metadata, and it gives you an updated EPUB to download.
Nice tool from Alex to generate cover images for EPUB files.
I might adopt a similar style for my reading log in the future. I ended up using cover images for the first iteration. Works well for recognition, but the unified look of variations of generated covers looks much nicer overall. And requires much less data, when it's just plain CSS.