Well, I did a system reset on my Kindle and as I expected, this allowed me to load all the books onto it again and have them show up. Also, I had a hunch for some reason that the covers might show up in the library better if they were AZW3 files rather than MOBI files, so I converted them from MOBI to AZW3 with Calibre before transferring them with Calibre. All of the covers showed up in the library this time (instead of generic covers) except for two of the books. Those two books I removed using Calibre (NOT on the Kindle itself) and reloaded the MOBI versions, which then showed up on the Kindle with the covers. WHY these two show generic covers as AZW3 files I do not know. (Also, I must add, I had reduced the files size of the covers before converting them to AZW3 files from the MOBI files, these were the same MOBI files that I had reloaded and were not showing up on the Kindle, so I am NOT SURE the covers WOULDN'T have shown up IF I had loaded the MOBI versions this time...)
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mobi2mobi is for editing the metadata. Normally that is not necessary since calibre can do all the work for you, but in case you need to check something you can use Java Mobi Metadata Editor. |
From what I can see at least and maybe I am missing something, Calibre has very limited metadata editing capably compared to Mobi2Mobi. I tried Java Mobi Metadata Editor and it is indeed capable of editing the metadata of an AZW3 file, but again, it seems limited compared to Mobi2Mobi in what it can edit. I find many more options in Mobi2Mobi, such as StartReading, UpdatedTitle and such... is there anything that lets you edit THESE on an AZW3 file?
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Are these books Personal Documents, or "ebooks"? (The difference is in the exth header 501, cdetype -- a value of "EBOK" displays as G-d/Amazon intended, a value of "PDOC" displays that ugly "Personal" banner.)
A PDOC will always have the cover extracted from the ebook file, and an EBOK will always depend on downloading the cover from Amazon's servers, which can be problematic so calibre sideloads the cover for you.
And a book with an ASIN will automatically be treated as EBOK I believe.
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Well, when converting them, Calibre seems to want to set them to [PDOC]. I'm confused by this however, because I believe I ran the Quality Check plugin on them all for missing EBOK type before transferring them to my Kindle and the plugin said they all passed, but a couple of them showed up with the "Personal" banner. I reconverted those and changed [PDOC] to [EBOK] which fixed this issue for them, but that was only a couple of them, so this may actually be CONTROLLED somewhere else, since I believe I originally set had them all as [PDOC] per Calibre. They SHOULD ALL have ASINs though, I also ran Quality Check for that (but a couple still ended up as personal documents).
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I would think the problem has to be the indexing (no other explanation I am aware of for books not showing up) so I would give the search-for-nonsense-string another try. There is an option somewhere, though I have an older firmware and am not sure what yours looks like. (Mine is just setting the search between My Items, Dictionary, This Book, Wikipedia etc. but the UI was changed...)
Regarding AZW3, that is another name for KF8 (Kindle Format 8) / mobi8 (mobipocket database format 8) / AZW3 (ebook-file.azw3)
The advantage of KF8 over mobi7 is better support for General Stuff (like having embedded fonts), internally cleaner and able to be cleanly unpacked into the original source, support for updating additional metadata e.g. cover, also, it handles highlighting hyphenated words better... no reason whatsoever to use MOBI unless you have a device that doesn't support KF8.
To see what firmware you have, go to Menu ==> Settings == Menu (again) ==> Device Info
Your Kindle Touch 2/KT2 (as we call it) first shipped with the 5.6.x line of firmware. It is for sure recent enough to support AZW3. 
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Woah .... all sorts of info I didn't know here. Must bookmark this whole thread ..... (memo to self) ..... glad I stopped in. Didn't know about anything newer than "mobi"!
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I take it as a great compliment that questions I have asked in a thread have taught something to a Wizard with 13388651 Karma! Therefore, I have changed my title to "New but not Noob"...
