Problems using both epub and Kindle format books using CC & the Win8.1 Kindle PC app
Apologies for being long-winded but this is actually pretty hard to articulate (since I haven't slept for about 40 hours - 'nother story).
I have been using CC for almost a year and love it. I have an Android tablet and use Moon Reader + as my e-reader. I prefer to buy my ebooks from Amazon (I have a Nook HD+) as I have never liked B&N's online store. Anyway, what I have been doing up until now is downloading a Kindle ebook from Amazon onto my PC using the Android Kindle app. I then converted the mobi, awz etc. book to epub and then downloaded it to CC using the Content Server connection to Calibre. I use Windows 8.1 on my PC on which the Kindle app buries downloaded books right down at the bottom of the mine shaft. I got around that by installing the Windows 7 version of the Kindle app. The location of downloaded ebooks was much easier to find (under appdata) and so I was able to import them into Calibre, convert them to epub and it was game over.
Yesterday I got a pop up from the Kindle app saying the version was no longer valid and that I had to upgrade. Now here's my problem, how can I get CC to see both epub and mobi/awz etc titles? I'm sure it's not a problem for CC but where the problem occurs is in identifying the downloaded Kindles titles and importing them into Calibre withut having to convert them. The easy answer is to use CC just for epub titles and llet the Android Kindle app handle the Kindle titles and read them using that app. The problem is that the Android Kindle app has zero organizing options, you just get lumps of books ordered by author, title or date downloaded, which doesn't appear to work BTW. So I really would like to be able to import Kindle titles too but in order to do that I have to have some idea of where Amazon stores them now.
If anyone can make sense of my post and has some idea of how I can achieve this, please share.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Last edited by jukin; 04-02-2014 at 09:15 PM.
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