11-19-2011, 09:04 AM | #1 |
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Touch - Will not Import Collections
Hi:
I a hope someone can help me because I am getting very frustrated. I spent the last few days updating and correcting my collections in order for them to be imported into my Touch. After I completed all that I loaded my 835 books onto the Touch, then tried to import the collections. They wouldn't work no matter what I did. I chatted with a CS rep and he said to either let it finish indexing, because this might be interfering or to wipe it back to factory default, import the collections, reload the books and then re-run import collections. I chose to go path #2. The importing collections worked when there were no books on it but when I try to report the collections after re-loading all the books they were not being imported into the collections which they belonged to. I know this process should work because I tried it with a second installation of k4pc on another computer with the same mobi files and it worked there. The process works on both the k4pc computers but will not work on the Touch. The Touch will have it's wheel spin for a minute or two but at the end there are no collections. Does anyone know if importing collections actually work on the Touch and what steps did you use? I would appreciate some feedback before I contact CS again to get a replacement. Nyn |
11-19-2011, 12:01 PM | #2 |
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For my touch:
I first backed up all of the non-kindle books from my old one and transferred them to the new touch. Then I downloaded all of the books from my archive. Once I had all of the books on the touch I went into archived items and did the import collections. At first it did the spinning circle, but I didn't notice anything happen so I tried it again. Again I didn't notice anything happen so I put kindle to sleep, and did some other things. The next morning I had everything sorted into collection, but I had duplicates of all of the collections, since I had imported twice. |
11-19-2011, 12:59 PM | #3 |
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My touch imported collections without a problem. Here is what I did. I opened my k3 in Calibre. I then sorted by whether the book was on the kindle and I added a tag TOUCH. I then disconnected the K3, Connected the Touch and copied over anything with a tag TOUCH. This included Amazon and non-Amazon books. I then imported collections and everything was perfect.
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11-19-2011, 01:09 PM | #4 |
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I could not get it to work, so finally I decided to just import books in batches of 100 and do a collections import between each batch. I was able to get this to work, although I had a few that didn't import. But I was able to fix them manually, which was better than trying to create collections on the entire list. I don't think Amazon designed the import to handle a large amount of books. Now I just have to wait for them to re-index so that I can FINALLY get to actually using my Touch.
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11-19-2011, 03:07 PM | #5 |
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Here is an interesting thing, I put this post on the Amazon forums also hopeing someone there would be able to help me. I just got a call from an Amazon rep who saw the post and called to check to see if I was able to get it to work. Wow, my respect for Amazon just went up another notch.
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