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Originally Posted by runningwithbulls
Manichean: I never said it was a problem with calibre.
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When something is not a problem with calibre, it should not be posted about in the calibre forum.
You posted
identical messages to two forums. This is not considered acceptable.
When you say "both forums are relevant" you are, in fact, quite wrong. You remind me of the Usenet spammers who used to insist that their advertisements for car insurance were relevant in a cats group because "people who own cats can buy car insurance." They, and you, are missing the point: that newsgroup (or this forum) are not for all the interests of people who match its topic. People are not restricted to a single newsgroup, website, or forum. While people who own cats do in fact buy car insurance, they'll find an insurance group (or website, these days) to look for it. The cats group is for
things about cats, not for
all things of interest to people who own cats.
It's the same way with forums. This is for calibre issues. The Kindle forum is for Kindle issues. They are not exclusive. Calibre users who have Kindles read the Kindle forum; Kindle owners who use calibre read this forum. Since your question required someone who owns a Kindle -- we Sony people, for instance, couldn't give you anything but blank looks -- and you admit that it wasn't a problem with calibre, the proper place for it was the Kindle forum. If there's someone who knows how to solve the problem, they'll be there.
Two forums may be relevant, but two forums are not
appropriate. You pick the
most relevant forum, and go with that one: the Kindle forum in this case. You don't try to get more attention by posting multiple copies of your post so that people see it everywhere. That doesn't get you answers; that gets you peeved responses. Which, you may note, are exactly what you've gotten.
Cross-posting is bad. Don't do it.