Book image links

[rachelmanija]

Up until today, Amazon enabled you to get an image link of a book's cover with one click, which you could then post on your website. This is how I got the images for my book reviews. Today it ended that function and now only enables text links.

It is extremely cumbersome and time-consuming to upload images on DW and I'm not going to do it every time I review a book. There's also a limit to how many images I can upload. Is there any other book site that enables one-click image links? Or is there some workaround to still get that from Amazon? I really like having a nice-sized image of the book cover on my reviews.

Comments

[yhlee]

Sorry, by "image address" do you mean "image URL" or the actual JPEG/whatever image FILE?

I've just tested this. I know it looks like RIDICULOUS GOBBLEDEGOOK but if you paste it in the HTML you will get an image.

<img src="INSERT_GOBBLEDEGOOKHERE" />

code in HTML mode will get you an image, e.g. here [locked but you should be able to see it).

EDIT: if you mean the image FILE and not its URL/ADDRESS for hotlinking, that's different (and B&N will not work for that unless you're, well, screencapping and then uploading somewhere).

I guess the follow-up question is, are you writing your entries in HTML/casual HTML or using whatever the Rich Text mode is? The weird code will work in an IMG tag in HTML. Rich Text I have no idea.

I have to get some work done but maybe someone else will have a better idea.

[rachelmanija]

It works! Thank you so much! I forgot to add the html.

[yhlee]

Oh yay!

Yeah, I actually have not looked into this in any depth and I should, but I have discovered a bunch of places saving their images with .webp and if I rename them locally to .jpg they're...JPEG files or open equivalently? XD

[havocthecat]

I rely on a Firefox extension that basically pulls most of them right back to their original file type: Don't Accept Image/WebP. I'm sure it's available for other browsers. But it's helped me out a lot with getting images downloaded.