Whispersync not working with Calibre ebooks

[copyrite]

1.0.1.240 is messed up for me, too. I just modify manually before I send to my Kindle.

[Governa]

Same problem here, 1.0.0.221 (latest version) on OSX. Stopped using the app and am now sending by email straight from Calibre.

[Governa]

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[eschwartz]

Do not use Amazon's send-to-Kindle app. Do the smart thing and send-to-email directly from calibre.

calibre knows how to send a proper attachment -- however you set it to send books over USB.

[Barbara1955]

I have transfer the ebooks from Calibre via the usb. I just looked at Calabre don't see the email.... Guess I am lost, again! ugh

[eschwartz]

Under Connect/Share, "Setup email based sharing of books", and then you will see options there to email to your configured recipient email addresses.

[Governa]

Originally Posted by Governa

I've finally found something that gets Whispersync working for me. I have no idea why it works after this but it just does.

I keep all my Calibre eBooks in two formats: EPUB and MOBI. All I did was:

1- delete all EPUB files, I was then left with MOBI files only;
2- convert those MOBI files to EPUB;
3- delete all MOBI files, I was then left with EPUB files only;
4- convert those EPUB files to MOBI.

Ok I've been doing quite a bit more testing and can confirm that the method I've quoted above fixes all the Whispersync gremlins I was having. Whenever I get an ebook that refuses to sync pages across devices, going MOBI>EPUB>MOBI fixes it permanently.

Case closed.

[fooeynet]

Originally Posted by Governa

Ok I've been doing quite a bit more testing and can confirm that the method I've quoted above fixes all the Whispersync gremlins I was having. Whenever I get an ebook that refuses to sync pages across devices, going MOBI>EPUB>MOBI fixes it permanently.

Case closed.

OMG this kills me. I spent hours trying to get one of my books to sync between my devices, assigning proper ASINs, editing metadata, emailing to my @kindle address, using the "convert" subject line or not, etc.
No matter what I did, the downloaded book on my KT had the "Sync to Furthest Page" option grayed out. The MOBI -> EPUB -> MOBI conversion worked for me as well.

[fooeynet]

Had another .mobi that this happened with, where all the metadata looked right but wouldn't whispersync even when send to my kindle address. Did the mobi->epub->mobi conversion and it started working, like the others.

Other thing I noticed was that the mobi that didn't work was 4x as large as the resulting mobi, so I'm assuming it was an uncompressed mobi. Wonder if that had anything to do with it... ?

[TheWitchDoctor]

Hello,

I've downloaded the "Send-to-Kindle" program (for Mac), but unfortunately it says I cannot send the documents in other formats than pdf, rtf and doc. So I cannot send my awz3 and mobi files using this program.

I'm confused and disappointed. Anyone has an idea?

Thank you in advance for your input.

[susan_cassidy]

You should be able to send mobi files. I believe it has never accepted azw3 files. Just a restriction of the program.

[TheWitchDoctor]

Yes, indeed I can. I've just tried to send a mobi file and it worked well. Thank you.

[RMOP]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Under Connect/Share, "Setup email based sharing of books", and then you will see options there to email to your configured recipient email addresses.

I'm just exploring using Calibre for much more than just converting between formats. If I read what you've said correctly, I can use Calibre to email a .mobi file directly to my Send-to-Kindle email address? And it will be incorporated into my Kindle account and then sync across all of my devices? That sounds too good to be true...

[eschwartz]

It is true calibre can do that.

And of course it is also useful for emailing to yourself so you have it on your phone (there are better methods) or for emailing books to friends (of course, these are PD books we are talking about ).

[RMOP]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

It is true calibre can do that.

And of course it is also useful for emailing to yourself so you have it on your phone (there are better methods) or for emailing books to friends (of course, these are PD books we are talking about ).

Thanks for the reply. That's encouraging. I'll look further into it. You can probably answer a related question: does cover art added to .mobi file via Calibre and then sent to Kindle via the Send-to-Kindle route then show up instead of the ugly Kindle-assigned generic "personal" cover "art?"