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Originally Posted by new
I am having the same problem with several books skipping order while I am reading, drives me crazy. I deleted everything on my Kindle PW and reloaded the book and 10 others, since I thought it was my PW. I originally started with an Epub, converted to AZW3, then Mobi. I put the Mobi on my PW.
So what would I do to fix it? Did you download the book again? Or do I just deleted all but the Epub and convert to Mobi or AZW3 again?
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Drives me batty too (though that's a very short drive most days....). Especially if I'm rereading something, and reading somewhat fast, I'll go to the "next page" and be a paragraph and a half down before something in my head goes "Wha??? This seems AWFULLY familiar!"
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I converted the source files to mobi, then converted (reconverted) them to epub when I was using my Nook. I don't recall whether Calibre automatically updated the books on the Nook when I did that, or if I had to change a setting to say "automatically update", or whether I manually deleted/reloaded them onto the device.
After some lowlife sleazebag decided he (she?) needed my Nook more than I did (I don't regret the Nook, I *do* regret the Oberon Design case it was in!!), I bought a Kindle PW.
And I had the same problem with books that had been epubs and now were AZW3. Most recently it was a book where as soon as I finished a chapter and swiped to get to the next page, I found myself back at the start of that chapter. This happened with every single chapter. Fortunately I could just go to the table of contents and go to the next chapter (something that did NOT work with the books on the Nook with the more-random jumps).
So I went back to Calibre, converted the epub to mobi then mobi to AZW3 (I didn't have to delete the old AZW3, I guess Calibre just overlaid it), then I deleted the book from the Kindle and re-copied it, and it's behaving correctly.
In your case, if the PW can read mobi format (which I hadn't realized), then possibly just doing epub-to-mobi would be sufficient. Give it a try.
Fortunately it shouldn't be too awful a chore, just takes a few minutes of clicking to get the conversions started. I wound up filtering on everything that had been imported as pdb, converting each of those to mobi, then filtering on all mobi files and converting each of THOSE to azw3.
BTW - Kovid, thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou for making such a wonderful tool!!