Thread: Is There a Way to Protect Amazon's X-Ray Capability on the Kindle?
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Old 01-04-2015, 01:53 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Nyssa View Post
Oh? Why? What exactly do I change that might render it incompatible?
Reconversion. I believe X-Ray as well as pagenumbers uses data offsets which will change whenever calibre blends the CSS during conversion and when metadata jackets are added.

Merely updating the metadata (including cover) will not break the accuracy of the X-Ray data.

AFAIK the XRay fie should not be getting deleted, I would guess the Kindle simply knows it doesn't match.

Does the book even show up as from Amazon? i.e. if you long-press does the delete option say "remove from device".
Also, the {ebook-file}.sdr folder which contains the extra data like annotations, pagenumbers, X-Ray, etc. must match the filename of the ebook file. I get around this with a custom send-to-device (KINDLE2 driver) filename template in calibre using a custom column called "Original Filename".
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