EPUB 2.0.1 - Cover by meta name="cover" Only (no guide, no cover page)
The cover convention that predates every standard way of doing it: a bare meta name="cover" pointing at a manifest id, with no guide reference, no cover XHTML page and nothing in the spine. For testing cover extraction against the messiest of the three EPUB 2 conventions.
- mimetype
- container.xml
- content.opf
- toc.ncx
- style.css
- cover.png
- chapter1.xhtml
- chapter2.xhtml
- chapter3.xhtml
Specifications
- Seed
- 20260807
- Epub Version
- 2.0.1
- Cover Convention
- meta name="cover" only
- Has Guide
- false
- Has Cover Page
- false
- Cover Item Id
- my-cover-image
- Cover In Spine
- false
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Ask a library tool or converter for this book's cover image.
- Expected result
- The tool follows meta name="cover" to the my-cover-image manifest item and returns cover.png, rather than reporting no cover because there is no cover page or guide reference.
What is a .epub file?
EPUB is the open e-book standard, a ZIP archive containing XHTML content documents, CSS, images, and a package manifest describing reading order and metadata. It supports reflowable text that adapts to screen size and is supported by most e-readers except Kindle natively. It is the dominant format for distributable e-books.
How to use this file
Use an example EPUB to test e-book parsing, ZIP-package and manifest handling, reading-order and metadata extraction, and rendering in e-reader applications.
How to use this file for testing
“EPUB 2.0.1 - Cover by meta name="cover" Only (no guide, no cover page)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Metadata testing, Conversion testing. Images, audio, video, and documents with documented metadata paired with deliberately stripped versions, for verifying extraction, preservation, redaction, and privacy-scrubbing behavior.
Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
E-book fixtures are structured archives documented down to their spine and manifest. Test readers and converters, and where a valid↔intentionally-invalid pair exists, assert graceful handling of the malformed container.
Code examples
ebook-convert meta-cover-no-guide.epub out.pdf # Calibre
unzip -l meta-cover-no-guide.epub # EPUB is a ZIPRelated files
- azwConvert v2 DRM-Free AZW E-bookDRM-free AZW/MOBI7 e-book source copied byte-for-byte from the catalog's valid reader fixture for legacy import testing. Stable P8 artifact p8-convert-legacy-azw.
- cbrConvert v2 Two-Page CBR ComicValid CBR comic container with two deterministic PNG pages in lexical reading order for legacy comic conversion. Stable P8 artifact p8-convert-legacy-cbr.
- epubEPUB 3 - Metadata Refines Chains (title-type, file-as, collection)Two dc:title elements distinguished only by refines chains into title-type and display-seq, a creator with file-as and a MARC relator role, and a series declared with belongs-to-collection. The structure a catalogue actually needs, and the one flat metadata readers collapse into a single confused string.
- fb2FB2 - Cover Embedded as a base64 binary ElementA FictionBook whose cover is a base64-encoded PNG in a binary element at the foot of the file, wired to a coverpage in the description by xlink id. For testing FB2 image extraction and the converters that have to turn that blob back into a real file.
- txtConvert v2 Archive SHA-256 ListGNU-style SHA-256 list for the two canonical TAR members, preserving relative paths and full lowercase digests. Stable P8 artifact p8-convert-archive-sha256.
- jsonCycloneDX Container Image SBOMA CycloneDX SBOM whose root component is an OCI container image rather than an application, mixing a fictional operating-system package with language packages — the shape an image scanner emits. Every package, version, hash and licence is fictional — the tree describes nothing real.
Generated by generation/ebooks_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.