[buschap]

I've looked through the forums for a thread dealing with this and didn't see one, but please accept my apologies if this replicates something already covered. And also if this is a double-post. I believe my earlier attempt to post it didn't get submitted.

I'm working on putting some of my documents on the Kindle personal document service in order to use the cross-device synchronization.

I've got various epubs that I'm converting to dual-format mobi files in order to e-mail them to the PDS.

I've got a Calibre plugboard that adds the series name to the start of a title when I use the "save to disk" button. From there, I e-mail the mobi files via my gmail account to my Kindle account. (I happen to do this via gmail's web interface, as Calibre stores the password in clear text, so I prefer not to configure e-mail directly in Calibre, but I don't believe this affects the outcome.)

Once e-mailed, some documents get the series prefix and some don't. Viewing the mobi metadata with the Java metadata viewer shows that all the e-mailed documents have the series correctly set, and the format of the documents coming back from Amazon doesn't seem to affect the outcome. (The are almost always azw3, but I sometimes get an azw, though I don't know why.)

Here's an example workflow:
I have the three Gary Wolf Roger Rabbit books. They are DRM-free epubs from Smashwords and Kobo. I have the series set in Calibre. I convert to "both" style mobi files, and choose "save to disk" to activate the plugboard. I e-mail all three documents to PDS, and two arrive with just the title, and one (the second one), arrives with [Roger Rabbit 02] in front of the title.

If anyone has any experience with or insight into this, I'd appreciate it.