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Originally Posted by tomsem
I'd like to understand how calibre supports placing ASIN's into mobi format metadata to enable syncing etc., and have not been able to find a simple 'how to' or even a not simple one, here or elsewhere. I'm not saying it isn't there, just that I could not find it after chasing a lot of search results.
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I've also been searching these fora for a solution to this problem, but so far with limited success. I got a Kindle 3 for my birthday, and I'd love to sync it with the Kindle application on my iPhone.
I'm starting from a much lower position - I only downloaded Calibre last week, and so far it seems very impressive. I have read that it ads either a random number, or the ISBN, as ASIN when converting a book, and that with this the Kindle device, as well as the kindle Application, would be able to sync the 'last read location'.
However, so far I haven't managed.
I downloaded a public domain work (The collected works of Sherlock Holmes) from project Gutenberg as an epub. I went into Calbre and downloaded the appropriate metadata (cover, ISBN, etc.). I then transferred this to both my Kindle and my iPhone (I had to jump through a few extra hoops here, as I can't access my work computer from my iPhone, as it's behind a firewall - instead I 'uploaded' it to iTunes, and synced it from there to the iPhone.)
I can see the book in both devices, but the location sync doesn't appear to work.
How would I go about debugging this?
How can I visualize the metadata of a file? Is it possible to show these things on the Kindle?