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kovidgoyal · 05-04-2012, 01:27 AM

@Cinderela: Since you seem to be in contact with amazon, tell them that their issues are all caused by a bug in their software. Whenever a MOBI file has the 113 field in the EXTH header with a value that amazon's servers don't know about, the following misbehavior happens:

1) For *some* MOBI files, the Kindle Fire opens then immediately closes the file, presumably because last read position syncing failed. There is absolutely no reason why the Fire should not be able to handle this situation gracefully.

2) In K4PC and on *some* kindle devices the cover thumbnail from the book is not used, instead, the software tries (and fails) to download the thumbnail from amazon's servers, and so displays a generic cover. Instead, it should fallback to using the thumbnail from the file when one cannot be downloaded from the cloud.

05-04-2012, 01:27 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,435 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Cinderela: Since you seem to be in contact with amazon, tell them that their issues are all caused by a bug in their software. Whenever a MOBI file has the 113 field in the EXTH header with a value that amazon's servers don't know about, the following misbehavior happens: 1) For some MOBI files, the Kindle Fire opens then immediately closes the file, presumably because last read position syncing failed. There is absolutely no reason why the Fire should not be able to handle this situation gracefully. 2) In K4PC and on some kindle devices the cover thumbnail from the book is not used, instead, the software tries (and fails) to download the thumbnail from amazon's servers, and so displays a generic cover. Instead, it should fallback to using the thumbnail from the file when one cannot be downloaded from the cloud. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 05-04-2012 at 01:30 AM.