12-04-2013, 07:27 PM | #301 | |
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I semi-understand where they are trying to go with this but they are not there yet. The collections should only be updated for the collections which the book(s) are in that are actually on the device. The remaining collections should be store on the cloud just like the books are. But they are not even syncing them up when the collections has the same name. For example I have 3 devices with collections and on my pw I have 3 different versions of the "Fantasy Series" collection, all of them with a different number of books in them, I am going to assume they have different numbers because it is based on the number of books of that collection that was on that device. Though that still doesn't make 100% of sense since they all have the missing books of the cloud in the collection. @Simaru: While I can respect your opinion, you really need to keep it to yourself, you do not have the experience with the advanced uses of collections to offer critical advice. I can also assume that yes Amazon has designed the collections feature to work with their system, however their system is not the only one that users use, and yes I can respect that they want to make it easier to use their system, thus discouraging users from shopping elsewhere. However, crippling their users could cost them those sales of their products, so they might want to rethink that and at least give back the minimal abilities we had prior to this update. But I can even tolerate them not adding this back if they could just fix the collections feature with their books. |
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12-04-2013, 07:28 PM | #302 | |
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You know, I've been thinking... I wonder if you could forge the books' asin to match Amazon's on sideloaded books (instead of the big long UUID-like identifier they usually use, I believe) could you trick Amazon into saving the sideloaded books as if they were official books? I know the Cloud will save books you don't own in the collections, because if I switch to my sisters' account, I can maintain my collections there too, for the Alf'ed books on my Kindle, although it doesn't make any difference since the Amazon'ed books also stay on my Kindle, but whatever. The point is, Amazon will collect any "official" book even if the account doesn't own a copy. |
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12-04-2013, 07:34 PM | #303 | |
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I apologize if that comes off as snarky but I am frustrated and not in the mood to read about what a product is designed to do and how well it works for your 35 books. This reader wants her ereader to be able to handle and organize the library that I should be allowed to carry with me... |
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Explain this to me, are these documents you have uploaded to the cloud with the send to feature?? How do you get this to work?? |
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Amazon is apparently saving that data for an Amazon book into Cloud Collections, even though that account does NOT own the book in MYK. |
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12-04-2013, 08:00 PM | #306 |
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wow, mine updated today and it was a mess. Like others said, it created a bunch of collections on my Kindle that I never made myself...and most of them were empty of books. I don't know where that stuff came from. For example, I bought all the Wheel of Time books from Amazon. My Kindle showed the following collections which I never created:
Wheel wheel of time Wheel of time Really?!! Luckily it only took me 5 minutes or so to remove everything and just re-download the 5 or 6 books I had on there before the update. |
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What do you mean metadaa search and replace? I have the asin in all of my files but I thought they had to be in the book when it is converted?? Is there a way to get the asin recognized by Amazon without converting the file in Calibre? It seems my ASIN is overwritten if the file is converted. I've run into this problem when converting from mobi to azw3.
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Actually, I was meaning every Kindle from the Touch on up to the PW2 (if the PW2 has not yet been infected with 5.4.2).
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We will have to use mobi2mobi, or else finally write that plugin several people threatened to make which allows calibre to write the ASIN instead of the UUID. Might be worth it to pluginize this if it can solve the now-dreaded Kindle Collections problem. |
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EDIT: Ok, I found the mobi2mobigui and I will play with this to see if it fixes the issues for me, guess I am going back to mobi files from azw3 files because I need the collections to work. I do not know what the reasoning is to use azw3 files over mobi, I've forgotten why I switched. I do not know what benefits the k8 has, but since I do not know it must not be that important to me. Last edited by nynaevelan; 12-05-2013 at 04:59 AM. Reason: Adding Info |
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KF8 supports richer formatting, such as embedded fonts, which Mobi does not.
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So far as I am concerned, the Amazon Collection software meets my particular needs and that is really all I have to worry about. I enjoyed all the features of the 5.4.2 update and look forward to the next update. It is possible that the average Amazon customer is more like me than the dedicated Calibre users and that is why Amazon has not focused on Calibre needs. I have never used Calibre or Apprentice Alf. Aren't there specialized forums here and at other locations for users of those software packages which can better answer questions and solve problems than readers and posters here? In the same manner I stopped ripping MP3 songs for the last 5 years and simply buy all my MP3 songs from Amazon. There may be a few folks who still strip MP3 songs from CD's but their numbers are shrinking. The same with movies. Some folks strip them from DVD's consuming lots of time doing so. I just stream them from Netflix and get a few movies on Netflix DVD's and then return them. Some folks like me just like to read eBooks, listen to music and watch movies and simply never use specialized software to break copy protection and engage in activities not sanctioned by Amazon or Netflix. Last edited by sirmaru; 12-05-2013 at 09:38 AM. |
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