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badgoodDeb · 04-29-2016, 12:54 PM

Do you "title changing" folks change the title before or after you've added the book to an Amazon cloud-style collection? Or do you skip Cloud-collections entirely, and ONLY do Calibre-renaming?

I added a fistful of books, back in November. I added them to my "CurrentRead" collection. Then I remembered to take a copy to my Mac and have Calibre change the title. So I deleted it from the kindle, and side-loaded the book from Calibre with the new title. And then watched them DISAPPEAR on my kindle, presumably due to the disagreement in name between the sideload, and the Cloud collection. I repeated this several times. They could be found on the kindle by searching (as I recall) but didn't show up in any list, collection or not. I was fast enough once to SEE that they initially did show up, and in a few seconds they disappeared again.

I finally stopped trying to Calibre-rename them, and just had the kindle pull the original books from the Cloud again, so that I could see the books on my kindle.

So: I theorized conflicts between cloud collections and Calibre-renaming. I've been scared to use Calibre-renaming ever since.

04-29-2016, 12:54 PM	#35
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Do you "title changing" folks change the title before or after you've added the book to an Amazon cloud-style collection? Or do you skip Cloud-collections entirely, and ONLY do Calibre-renaming? I added a fistful of books, back in November. I added them to my "CurrentRead" collection. Then I remembered to take a copy to my Mac and have Calibre change the title. So I deleted it from the kindle, and side-loaded the book from Calibre with the new title. And then watched them DISAPPEAR on my kindle, presumably due to the disagreement in name between the sideload, and the Cloud collection. I repeated this several times. They could be found on the kindle by searching (as I recall) but didn't show up in any list, collection or not. I was fast enough once to SEE that they initially did show up, and in a few seconds they disappeared again. I finally stopped trying to Calibre-rename them, and just had the kindle pull the original books from the Cloud again, so that I could see the books on my kindle. So: I theorized conflicts between cloud collections and Calibre-renaming. I've been scared to use Calibre-renaming ever since.