Thread: Troubleshooting Kindle wifi restricted to browsing the Amazon store ?
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Old 09-03-2010, 11:56 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Solicitous View Post
How are people going with downloading mobi files from websites? I'm finding through Calibre content server it works fine, but if I use Calibre2opds or put the ebooks in a directory listing on the webserver the browser on the Kindle appears to try and open the file (hence a page full of garbage) rather than prompt me to download it.

Is there a little trick needed in the html page for the Kindle to recognise the file as one to be downloaded?
The web server you use has to send the correct mime types for the files.
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