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Originally Posted by dwanthny
If I owned a Kindle I would be submitting complaints to Amazon and ask them to quit overwriting the EXTH[501] field with PDOC. If I wanted the book to have a PDOC tag I would have put it there.
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Amazon is completely uninterested in problems with content that doesn't originate in their store. I would say to Kindle owners: don't waste your time complaining to Amazon; they don't care.
I have sometimes thought that Amazon does things to its Kindle software to render non-Amazon content in a degraded fashion (e.g. the fiasco over the "Sections and Articles" view in the latest K3 software, and now the PDOC issue). However, I now think that the Kindle software developers simply don't consider the implications of what they are doing for non-Amazon content at all. They assume pretty-well everything you'll look at on your Kindle comes from Amazon, and the personal document capability is incidental and unimportant for most people.
Of course, that is precisely the Amazon business plan with Kindle. You get a Kindle so you can buy their content, not to look at your own stuff. The calibre community is of no interest whatsoever to Amazon, and in fact they are probably annoyed at the alternative to the paid Amazon periodical subscriptions that calibre provides.
Well, that's my rant for today!