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Old 11-23-2014, 12:45 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Thanks. Even though I buy most of my books from Amazon, all my content is sideloaded with Calibre. I wonder if the link perhaps wasn't there for sideloaded content?
If the book has an ASIN (exth 113 field) the book description link will pop up. In both places on my Kindle Touch, but I guess fw5.6.1 removed it in the book?

Anyway, it is dependent on the ASIN, and FWIW I have some converted books, some of which I made sure to embed a fake ASIN to get rid of the "personal" tag -- those also show the book description link (because the framework just knows to make a link to whatever shows up, it doesn't have validation built in), but it is a dead link, so you end up on the storefront.

The legacy sideloaded books that were converted before I set that up still show the PDOC tag and have no book description link.

The originally-from-Amazon sideloaded books that are DeDRMed and title-sanitized have not been converted and have a working Book Description link -- even though they were sideloaded via USB.
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