oh lordy, ok, let me see if I can get help here. To try to get covers to show up on my kindle fire, I did what the manual recommended:
"You can work around it by going to Preferences->Output Options->MOBI output and setting the “Enable sharing of book content” option. If you are reconverting a previously converted book, you will also have to enable the option in the conversion dialog for that individual book (as per book conversion settings are saved and take precedence).
Note that doing this will mean that the generated MOBI will show up under personal documents instead of Books on the Kindle Fire and Amazon whispersync will not work, but the covers will."
And then it started sending everything as a document, which I decided I didn't want, so I un-clicked that option, deleted all the MOBI files i had converted and reconverted them with that option deselected.
The issue is- now when I do the "send to kindle" option, the authors still are not showing up correctly. Instead of automatically putting the correct author's name, it is showing my name, or the author of the previous file I sent using the program.
I am thoroughly confusing the guy from Amazon that I am talking on the phone with, is this possibly a Calibre issue?
