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clemon79 · 11-23-2011, 02:51 PM

I wanted to add my own data points in the hopes of solving some of the remaining mysteries here:

I have a 3G Kindle Keyboard and a Fire, and a lot of non-Amazon-purchased content, which I sideload using Calibre over USB. I was surprised to discover that non-Amazon books synched at all, but when I copied a .mobi and it's .mbp file over from the KK to the KF, furthest-page-read worked like a champ. (But that's all that seems to work right now.)

So, great, if things will sync back and forth, open the floodgates! Last night I got the Calibre update that enables the Fire, and uploaded a bunch of books onto it, some of which landed in Books, some of which landed in Docs, even though Calibre uploaded them all to the Documents folder. Thanks to this thread, I discovered it was the [PDOC] issue causing this to happen, and when I cleared out the appropriate field in Calibre and did a MOBI-to-MOBI conversion, the resulting books all show up in Books now. Spiffy!

So now the challenge seems to be in getting full-sync to work. Some of these books aren't even syncing to last-page-read, and I have yet to see a bookmark sunc properly even with the one book that seems to be working with, and I'm wondering if it's because I'm going to need to re-add them in their new forms to my KK (even though the filename of the .mbp hasn't changed).

So that's where I am now, and I welcome insight and further discussion, because if we can get full-sync across both devices for non-Amazon books, that would be AWESOME.

11-23-2011, 02:51 PM	#121
clemon79 Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Amazon Kindle 3 3G+WiFi	I wanted to add my own data points in the hopes of solving some of the remaining mysteries here: I have a 3G Kindle Keyboard and a Fire, and a lot of non-Amazon-purchased content, which I sideload using Calibre over USB. I was surprised to discover that non-Amazon books synched at all, but when I copied a .mobi and it's .mbp file over from the KK to the KF, furthest-page-read worked like a champ. (But that's all that seems to work right now.) So, great, if things will sync back and forth, open the floodgates! Last night I got the Calibre update that enables the Fire, and uploaded a bunch of books onto it, some of which landed in Books, some of which landed in Docs, even though Calibre uploaded them all to the Documents folder. Thanks to this thread, I discovered it was the [PDOC] issue causing this to happen, and when I cleared out the appropriate field in Calibre and did a MOBI-to-MOBI conversion, the resulting books all show up in Books now. Spiffy! So now the challenge seems to be in getting full-sync to work. Some of these books aren't even syncing to last-page-read, and I have yet to see a bookmark sunc properly even with the one book that seems to be working with, and I'm wondering if it's because I'm going to need to re-add them in their new forms to my KK (even though the filename of the .mbp hasn't changed). So that's where I am now, and I welcome insight and further discussion, because if we can get full-sync across both devices for non-Amazon books, that would be AWESOME.