[Y|yukichigai]

Hey,

So I've been using calibre for a while. I'm rather happy with it, except for one weird issue I'm having with .mobi files I convert and then try to read with the Kindle app. All of the files I convert show up with the same cover icon, every last one. It's usually assigned to the most recent converted book I uploaded, but not always. If I upload books which came in .mobi format it shows the cover icon properly.

Now this by itself isn't a big issue, but I think it's related to the next thing, which is that bookmarks aren't tracked properly by the Kindle app between these books, at least partially. If I open the book through the Kindle menu, no problem, bookmark is back where it was. Where it gets screwed up is when I exit the app directly without backing out to the Kindle menu first. When I re-open Kindle it tries to re-open the last book I was reading, except since (apparently) it thinks all my uploaded books are the same it opens some arbitrarily chosen book, usually not the one I was last reading. It's the same book every time, until I change what books I have on the iPhone.

Now the CATCH with all of this is that I'm using a Jailbroken iPhone, and rather than paying Amazon to send me my own books I just SSH in and put them in the Kindle app's eBook folder. Like I said, this works for pre-converted .mobi files (as long as they have embedded cover info); it's only ones I convert that come up with no cover. Everything else - Title, Author, what have you - seems to come up fine.

Is there a solution to this? Is there some sort of conversion setting I need to change? I've tried taking out the Personal Documents tag in conversion settings but that didn't seem to do the trick. I'd even settle for a free workaround that gets the appropriate info tagged (besides using Stanza; I prefer the Kindle app, it's a bit quicker).

I'm trying to find a free book that shows cover info so perhaps some more in-the-know people can compare headers and what have you. I'll edit if I find it.