06-18-2014, 10:59 PM | #1 |
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Send to Kindle reprocessing?
Are there any details on what kind of reprocessing the Send to Kindle functionality does?
I know that the KF7/KF8 file sizes Kindlegen gives are "approximate". But they're 10-25% lower than the files showing in my Cloud Drive are, and I can't imagine it's that wrong... |
06-19-2014, 12:09 AM | #2 |
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I don't think Send to Kindle creates KF8 files.
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.mobi is a different format than KF8, therefore the size estimate does not apply.
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EDIT: Well now that's interesting. I just unpacked both the original & the send-to-Kindled files. The post-Send-to-Kindle file has just a KF8 section according to KindleUnpack v0.65. The size still isn't quite right, but it's at least within 5% of the original KF8 compressed with -c1 instead of with Huffdic. For grins and giggles, I tried with a different book, one with a custom font. The font both displays on my PW2, and it survived the round trip, which is a pretty good indication to me that it really is KF8. Methinks Amazon is making some changes to Send-to-Kindle. (Or this is old news and I missed it entirely - but if so it sounds like others in the thread did too!) Last edited by ATimson; 06-20-2014 at 12:52 AM. |
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News to me. The mailing-a-dual-mobi-via-calibre trick may no longer be needed...
Does it retain the cover once on your Kindle? Dual mobis don't. |
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If you downloaded it on a device or app that supports KF8, it would have. If your device supports KF8, Amazon will only send you the KF8 portion of the file.
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None of the above - I downloaded the file from the "My Send-to-Kindle Docs" page in Amazon Cloud Drive. (Even if that added KF8 support, I would have expected it to keep both versions of a dual file.)
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If you downloaded it and added via USB, the cover should't show up. If it comes from Amazon's servers, and thus has an ASIN, the Kindle will try to download the cover from Amaon's servers, and never look inside the book. There is a script somewhere that actually extracts covers from Personal Docs that were delivered as KF8, for this exact reason. |
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Admittedly, I did pick devices when doing "Send to Kindle" to start with, so maybe it was filtered at that point. (I don't have any KF7-only devices to try with and see what happens.) |
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I never got an email from Amazon, and only vaguely remember something about this from here on MR. |
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