From d9dd04396efc0d521c47ed471a0537e066dc617a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Miller <retiefjimm@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:03:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Epub Update: Don't cache cover image with others, trips
 dedup.

---
 fanficfare/epubutils.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fanficfare/epubutils.py b/fanficfare/epubutils.py
index 94e7f4f2..6b6bfa15 100644
--- a/fanficfare/epubutils.py
+++ b/fanficfare/epubutils.py
@@ -304,6 +304,10 @@ def get_update_data(inputio,
         for item in contentdom.getElementsByTagName("item"):
             href=relpath+item.getAttribute("href")
             if item.getAttribute("media-type").startswith("image/") and getsoups:
+                if oldcover and href == oldcover[3]:
+                    # don't include cover image, already handled by
+                    # oldcover code and can trip de-dup unintentionally.
+                    continue
                 img_url = href.replace("OEBPS/","")
                 # logger.debug("-->img img:%s"%img_url)
                 if img_url not in images: