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Originally Posted by Timboli
The only books I side-load to my Kindles, are non Amazon sourced and are relatively few, so I cannot speak for the situation with them. But for the last few years it seems, I have found that many Kindle books present an option to view the Synopsis when you first open them, and my Kindles are never connected to the web when I successfully do that (I only connect to download).
That doesn't occur for most of my older Kindle collection though, from what I have seen, so it may be relatively new and down to the publisher, whether that feature is available.
When a Synopsis is available, I have to click an expand button to see it all. I would rather see the synopsis as being first page after the cover ... a bit like the inside flap of a hardcover book. That said, many books are set to open at the first page to start reading, skipping cover and index etc ... so that would be an issue for them ... hence why I like my ebook of summaries (synopses) approach ... less clicks and much faster and easier overall ... unless it is just the one book (or small number) you are wanting to know about.
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Interesting. My guess, your ebooks have valid ASIN and it's downloading the description/metadata while connected to the internet (doesn't really take long).
Wonder where the description gets stored though. I don't think I've seen any summaries in /var/local/cc.db. Indeed, on fw5.10.1.3, I don't even get a Book Description context menu item anymore. There's just
View in Store or
View in Goodreads for EBOKs and absolutely nothing for PDOCs.
I have a bunch of fics with bogus ASIN and properly embedded summaries and tags (tested working on import to a new Calibre Portable install/library), and the summaries have never shown up via Kindles' Book Description.