About 2-3 weeks ago, Calibre stopped pulling up books when I tried to add them. It didn't recognize the new Kindle format - AZW3[1]. I downloaded the most recent version of Calibre hoping that would fix it, but I think this started happening the version of Calibre before that.
When I try to add books in Calibre, the new books aren't appearing in the Select Books menu box because the format isn't listed in the "normal" Calibre ebook .format list. If I select ALL formats, then of course the book I downloaded to my PC shows up. When I add the book to Calibre, I get a generic book cover and zero metadata (not even the author). So when I try to have Calibre download the metadata, I get junk - like the wrong book, author, cover, etc. Now, if I delete the bracket in the file extension (the "[1]) to make Calibre
think it's a regular AZW3 file, then it recognizes the book from the dropdown file format and loads the correct basic metadata. But when I try to open the book in either Calibre or Kindle for PC, I get an error "The book could not be opened. Please remove the book from your device and redownload it." Having the same issue with an AZW[1] formatted book.
I am not a guru of Calbre and don't understand a lot of the posts on this forum (not a techie!), so simply worded help is appreciated.
I download a bunch of free Kindle books a week, and have put all of them on my pc. I'm getting behind on my downloads and need to get back to functional. Any suggestions are appreciated! FYI...almost without exception, the books go from Amazon's cloud to my Kindle, and don't get loaded from Calibre. But I want to be able to access my library on my PC, or convert to another format if/when needed...The big thing I use Calibre for is a huge "card catalog" - what books do I have, what subject, what's the book about, have I read it, was it good, etc. It's so much easier to do all that in Calibre since Kindle still has no good library/tracking features.
Thanks in advance for the help!
-j