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Covers! commentary and samples

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Re: Covers! commentary and samples

Post by Mythica » Wed November 28th, 2018, 4:27 am

Margaret wrote:I like the cover of Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel, Unsheltered. It's elegant and appropriate to the historical material - a period drawing of a carnivorous plant.

Can anyone help me figure out how to include an image in a post? I see where the "image" icon is, but don't know how to grab the image to put inside it.
Just copy and paste the image URL. If it's from Amazon, you should be able to right click the image and depending on the browser you're using, select the equivalent of "copy image address" then paste it into the img tags here, or "open image in new tab" and then copy and paste the URL from the address bar.

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Re: Covers! commentary and samples

Post by Margaret » Thu November 29th, 2018, 4:22 am

Just copy and paste the image URL. If it's from Amazon, you should be able to right click the image and depending on the browser you're using, select the equivalent of "copy image address" then paste it into the img tags here, or "open image in new tab" and then copy and paste the URL from the address bar.
Thank you for your help, Mythica! Alas, this is not working for me. This seems to be the best I can do:

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Aargh!
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Re: Covers! commentary and samples

Post by Mythica » Thu November 29th, 2018, 4:24 pm

Margaret wrote:
Just copy and paste the image URL. If it's from Amazon, you should be able to right click the image and depending on the browser you're using, select the equivalent of "copy image address" then paste it into the img tags here, or "open image in new tab" and then copy and paste the URL from the address bar.
Thank you for your help, Mythica! Alas, this is not working for me. This seems to be the best I can do:

Image

Aargh!
That looks like it's a google redirect URL to Amazon. This looks like the book url you were going for:

An image URL needs to end in something like .jpg, .gif, .png, etc. So the cover for that book would be found here: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com ... qxA9DL.jpg

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Re: Covers! commentary and samples

Post by Margaret » Thu November 29th, 2018, 10:41 pm

Whew! Thank you, Mythica. Isn't it a beautiful cover?
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Re: Covers! commentary and samples

Post by Mythica » Thu December 6th, 2018, 2:10 am

Margaret wrote:Whew! Thank you, Mythica. Isn't it a beautiful cover?
Yes, I just saw it at the book store too, coincidentally.

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