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Originally Posted by Kolenka
Does it handle covers with KF8? I was able to trick it when the PW came out, but no covers worked.
EDIT: I've been playing with this again, and I'm still getting the same behavior I got months ago when the paperwhite was released:
- AZW3 is still being rejected.
- A MOBI with both may only pass along the MOBI piece, or make the KF8 piece available. Flip a coin. My copy of Blue Mars only passed through the MOBI part of the file, and it stripped out the KF8 part.
- When KF8 isn't stripped, covers don't work on the paperwhite.
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I would just use .mobi, not .azw3. That covers everything.
I have been getting both mobi and kf8 from PDS. I check by downloading to Kindle for iOS to verify drop caps and other text formatting degrades (every other kindle I have supports reflowable kf8, and that is what gets sent. Well. I have a K1 but I'm outside of wireless coverage so I cannot check that now).
Cover thumbnails are showing up fine for me (Kindle Touch, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite, K4iOS).
There are some encoding issues with the Author/Title, however (apostrophes, '(C)', '(R)' etc. what used to be called 'hi order' ASCII). Or maybe that is a Sent To Kindle bug. But I've seen similar issues with books from Kindle Store as well.
It would be nice if you could download stuff from PDS with a computer browser. The desktop apps and cloud reader don't support PDS, so there's no way to even side-load to the desktop app unless you have it stored somewhere else. And for times when there's no wireless available and you have to side-load.