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Originally Posted by abookreader
I tried to help but I got lost. This is what I found.
1. Two books added to Kindle by author Joe Hill
- putting books onto device with Calibre puts 2 .mobi files and 2 .apnx files (one set for each book) in the Hill, Joe Folder (under Documents)
2. New Collection Name:- A Test Collection (no books added to collection yet). Can't find any changes to Documents Folder. No Folder added under Documents for "A Test Collection."
3. Disconnected Kindle and added the 2 Joe Hill books to "A Test Collection" Now I have two folders under Hill, Joe Folder (see first attachment for a picture). These folders are empty. They are also ~not~ named for the new Collection. They are the names of the two books.
4. This is where I lose you. There is nothing in these sdr folders and I have my options set to display hidden files. Mine aren't the names of the Collections. When I browse through it looks like books that I've opened and read some have two files in there but books that I've never opened on this Kindle have empty folders. I took a picture of a folder for the book I've been reading, the new Stephen King, so you can see the contents of the folder. See attachment 2
5. I've looked all over my Kindle and I'm not seeing any subfolders with my Collection names. I performed a search over the entire Kindle and found nothing for "A Test Collection."
I don't know what to do from here but if you need something else post and I'll try.
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Thanks for the info. Its definitely confusing.
1. Good to know you can still store the files under a subdirectory (I wonder if doing so makes any difference)
2. If you created a new Collection name and can't find it under Documents or any directory (even when showing hidden files) then that's not good (on the other hand it doesn't really matter since we're only really interested in collections that have books). Have you tried Restarting the Kindle after creating the new collection?
3. So the .sdr entries are folders - not files. That's useful to know. But still no sign of your collection name - anywhere? That's really not good. Have you tried a Restart?
4. Since the .sdr entries are folders not files as I thought, the steps won't make sense. So the Kindle stores other files in the .sdr directory - its not just about collections. I wonder whats in the 2 files - maybe syncing/note/other information - haven't had a chance to look around to see if anyone has documented this yet. And as you know, I can't get a Touch yet...
5. I wonder why collection names showed up or appeared to show up on Nyn's Kindle.
Seems like a bit more investigation is needed. If anyone does see their collection names anywhere, let us know.