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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
Re-import ePub to Calibre (allow duplicate), so it's got new meta-data.
Change the title and author in some simple fashion. Make sure only spaces and apostrophe and no accented letters, only Latin-Roman text. Though it shouldn't be a problem. I think once I had a problem somewhere with an accented letter, though I shouldn't have had.
Then re-convert.
Send to Device.
Since it's now a different book it should appear as the other books did. Kindle doesn't care about the content till you try to open it.
Then as a separate project you can figure out why original version is invisible. Examine meta-data and actual on Kindle file names / folders
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OK, I tried that. Neither the author or title contain any funny characters. I imported another copy of the EPUB, removed the last letter of the author and the last letter of the title, and sent it off to the Kindle. It got autoconverted to AZW3, and appeared in the documents directory of the Kindle as expected. It did not show up in the Kindle's book list.
I also tried editing the AZW3 to see if there was anything odd about that. There were a bunch of warnings about invalid IDs starting with digits, so I let Calibre fix those, and tried uploading again. Still no joy.
Then I tried manually copying the AZW3 to the documents directory on the Kindle. All my other books are in per-author subdirectories; I put this one directly inside the documents folder. Lo and behold, it suddenly appeared (but with the name in its raw format, without the series name and number which my Calibre metadata plugboard attaches). And I can open it and read it without any problems.
Before you ask: the book in question is the third in a series, and the other two show up fine, and I've been using the same metadata plugboard ever since I had my first Kindle some years ago.