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NiLuJe · 09-22-2013, 06:13 PM

@PoP: Not as far as I remember, but I may be wrong

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To recap a bit, because I've been poring over this all day (funnily enough, nearly the exact same query came up on IRC ^^).

* A combo file straight from KindleGen => "Personal" banner, crappy small embedded thumbnail.

* EXTH 501 set to EBOK => No banner. Crappy small embedded thumbnail for KF8/Combo files, possibly slightly less crappy generated thumbnail for M7 files.

* EXTH 501 & EXTH 113 (+/- EXTH 504) => No banner. No thumbnail either, unless the ASIN is a valid ASIN, and your Kindle is connected to the net, in which case it's pulled from Amazon's servers. (Basically, that's how a file you get straight from the KS/Cloud behaves).

* Now, if you sideload this last kind of file via Calibre's "Send To Device" feature => No banner, and a pretty thumbnail!

Speaking of Calibre, when you do a Mobi or AZW3 conversion, unless you mess with the settings (the whole FB sync thing, manual PDOC tagging & co), it will generate this last kind of file (ie. the best kind).

There are also a number of codepaths in Calibre that don't really try that hard (or at all) at distinguishing combo files (for example, because that's what I was looking at, and it's partly my fault, the APNX sideloading handles combo files from KG as if it were a M7 file, which might not be the best course of action). So, yeah, unless you have a very good reason, I'd do without the combo files, personally

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09-22-2013, 06:13 PM	#7
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@PoP: Not as far as I remember, but I may be wrong . To recap a bit, because I've been poring over this all day (funnily enough, nearly the exact same query came up on IRC ^^). * A combo file straight from KindleGen => "Personal" banner, crappy small embedded thumbnail. * EXTH 501 set to EBOK => No banner. Crappy small embedded thumbnail for KF8/Combo files, possibly slightly less crappy generated thumbnail for M7 files. * EXTH 501 & EXTH 113 (+/- EXTH 504) => No banner. No thumbnail either, unless the ASIN is a valid ASIN, and your Kindle is connected to the net, in which case it's pulled from Amazon's servers. (Basically, that's how a file you get straight from the KS/Cloud behaves). * Now, if you sideload this last kind of file via Calibre's "Send To Device" feature => No banner, and a pretty thumbnail! Speaking of Calibre, when you do a Mobi or AZW3 conversion, unless you mess with the settings (the whole FB sync thing, manual PDOC tagging & co), it will generate this last kind of file (ie. the best kind). There are also a number of codepaths in Calibre that don't really try that hard (or at all) at distinguishing combo files (for example, because that's what I was looking at, and it's partly my fault, the APNX sideloading handles combo files from KG as if it were a M7 file, which might not be the best course of action). So, yeah, unless you have a very good reason, I'd do without the combo files, personally . Last edited by NiLuJe; 09-22-2013 at 06:29 PM.