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Cover

Covers are used for all the ebook formats, and to make books more elegant on GitBook.com.

To provide a cover, place a cover.jpg file at the root directory of your book. Adding a cover_small.jpg will specify a smaller version of the cover. The cover should be a JPEG file.

Best Sizes

Big Small
File cover.jpg cover_small.jpg
Size(in pixels) 1800x2360 200x262

Guidelines

A good cover respects the following guidelines:

  • No border
  • Clearly visible book title
  • Any important text should be visible in the small version

Autocover

A GitBook plugin (autocover) can also be used to automatically generate a cover file, or just create a cover_small.jpg from a cover.jpg. This plugin is added by default on hosted books.

Read more about autocover.