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Originally Posted by CRussel
I'm putting the .azw3 files in <internal storage>/Books. When I do that, they show as expected in the listing of my books in the main Kindle Books interface, just like a book I've downloaded from Amazon directly. But I can't actually see where Amazon puts books it downloads. If I use the file explorer app to navigate to the folder and open the .azw3 file, it doesn't know what to do with it. But if I do the same with a .mobi file, it opens the Kindle reading app. Note that when I use Calibre to sideload an azw3, it puts it in the same folder.
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I now understand why it behaves as it does. The file manager experiment demonstrates that the native reading app is advertizing that it can handle mobi, so CC can start it up in the normal way. It is not advertizing azw3, so CC cannot. And you aren't using one of the what we thought were the normal folders, so CC doesn't do anything special to attempt to trick the reader app into handling the book.
Are you saying that if the folder is not /Books/ then the books do not show up in the main interface? In particular, what happens if you copy one of those books into "<internal storage>/Kindle/"? If the book is there then CC will try to launch the kindle reading app. I have a gut feeling that the reading app will show books no matter where they are, but I most certainly don't know that. If it does, you can tell calibre to put books wherever you wish but connecting then right-clicking the device icon and choosing "Configure this device".
The guessing game we have been playing with Amazon equipment is annoying. It always has been, but now that Amazon allows CC sales it is has passed a threshold. We are putting an end to it and buying a Fire HD.