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Originally Posted by jhowell
My best guess is that the "comic" category is not determined by the book contents, but comes from Amazon's servers.
As a test I put my Oasis in airplane mode, bought a (free) comic, downloaded it and copied it to the Oasis via USB. It did not show as a comic. I then turned off airplane mode and synced the kindle. After that the sideloaded book showed as a comic.
As another test I took a book that showed as a comic and made a copy of it with a different (unused) ASIN. The copy did not show as a comic even though the book contents were identical to the original book, other than the ASIN.
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You are right. Sync is editing
p_type column in
cc.Entries internal database:
Entry:Item ->
Entry:Item:Comic
Well played Amazon. Forcing remote query to check information that is available in file header.