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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Hint: We have a Kindle Fire subforum for questions specifically about the Kindle Fire.  Moved.
As I understand, the Fires are more finicky about the asin/cdetype than the E-Ink devices...
If you use calibre, there is a plugin called Quality Check which can add the correct exth 113/504 fields to a MOBI/AZW3 and is designed for this purpose.
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Thankyou eschwartz - just the sort of clue I was looking for.
I was sent a Fire HD6 as a gift. I hooked it into my pc and slid a packet of books over using the file system browser. I slid them into the books folder in the kindle file structure but many ended up in the documents folder. I didn't know until today (from this forum) that Calibre could hook directly into the Fire device.
Two that ended up in the wrong place were ones that I authored and formatted for kindle via epub and kindlegen. I didn't see the point of buying copies of my own books from Amazon.
Your clues lead me to install QualityCheck and that enabled me to see what metadata was missing. I downloaded the metadata, deleted the books from 'docs' on the device and reset the devices metadata using Calibre. Then resent the books to the device using just the AZw format and lo and behold, there they are : now nicely in the books folder.