Syncing your own eBooks between PCs and Android

[joseph.carty]

Has anyone else gotten the non-drm books that are not on amazon to sync the way explained above?

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by joseph.carty

Has anyone else gotten the non-drm books that are not on amazon to sync the way explained above?

Anyone who follows the instructions above and converts a book to mobi with calibre will have success. I'm guessing the person that had troubles wasn't using a version of calibre that was current enough at the time so was not successful.

The only thing that will prevent you form being successful is if during conversion, in the Mobi ouput settings, you check the Enable sharing book content via Facebook option. This will break allowing your sideloaded book to sync.

Page syncing of books converted to mobi via calibre is not an experiment that might go wrong or give you problems it just plain works.

[ghostyjack]

Nope, I was using the latest version of Calibre for the conversions. And as I don't use Facebook, I don't check that option.

I never did figure out what was going wrong, but as most of my reading material is in epub, I'm not too worrried out it.

[Korbi]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

Anyone who follows the instructions above and converts a book to mobi with calibre will have success. I'm guessing the person that had troubles wasn't using a version of calibre that was current enough at the time so was not successful.

The only thing that will prevent you form being successful is if during conversion, in the Mobi ouput settings, you check the Enable sharing book content via Facebook option. This will break allowing your sideloaded book to sync.

Page syncing of books converted to mobi via calibre is not an experiment that might go wrong or give you problems it just plain works.

Does the kindle app only enable page sync or is it also possible to sync annotations, highlighted text and bookmarks?

I am using moon+reader on my android phone and have been eagerly waiting for a syncing solution. Is there somewhere are detailed tutorial for this?

[Dangles]

The Aldiko (www.aldiko.com) ebook reader is excellent and allows you to add your own content, but I believe it's only available in the Android market... so it doesn't fully answer the question of full syncing. Plus it only reads EPUB and PDF files. But it does allow you to add anything from your SD card, and you can have your Dropbox account store items on your SD card. In fact that might be the default for Dropbox.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Korbi

Does the kindle app only enable page sync or is it also possible to sync annotations, highlighted text and bookmarks?

For mobi files converted with calibre I believe only pages get synced. For books bought through Amazon it might (I have no clue) sync all of the above.

Originally Posted by Korbi

I am using moon+reader on my android phone and have been eagerly waiting for a syncing solution. Is there somewhere are detailed tutorial for this?

I'm not sure what you're looking for. A tutorial for ???? The posts earlier in this thread layout the Kindle syncing using books converted to mobi via calibre.

[junecaz]

Same issue here. I'm trying, as was instructed in this topic, convert my files to .mobi with Calibre (latest version) and my pages do not synchronize with PC -> Smartphone (Android Device)

[luqmaninbmore]

I've been able to synch my calibre converted books with the Kindle App. I just copy the books via drop box to the kindle folder on my tablet and my phone and they stay in synch just fine. If only I could 'upload' my own books to the Kindle cloud reader...

[jduck]

Reviving an old thread here because this is something I'd love to be able to do.

For anyone that has this working, can you go into a little more detail on what you're doing? Here's what I am trying:

1. Convert book to mobi using calibre (it's not the newest but it is 0.8.3 which is newer than this thread by nearly a year -- actually have the same results with 0.9.5 64-bit). The 'share with facebook' option is not checked.

2. Email the book to my me@kindle.com address. It shows up in my kindle library under personal documents.

3. Sync in the android app, and I can see my book.

4. Sync in the Kindle for PC program, I can't see my book.

5. Copy the mobi file over to my kindle content directory, restart kindle for pc. Now I can see my book.

But the furthest read location is not synced (and indeed, why should it be, since the kindle program didn't get the book from Amazon's servers?).

What step am I missing there?