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bfollowell · 09-22-2019, 08:59 AM

I've been having more and more problems with my reader of choice of the past several years, Bookari. It's still a great reader overall, but it just has some quirks. I was able to recently download a new Amazon shorts series of short stories called the Forward collection, so I converted those to epub and was reading them in Bookari when one of the stories just ended. You could tell there was something wrong with the book, which I verified by opening it in the Kindle app. It was fine there. This was a short story, so it wasn't worth my time to troubleshoot and edit the book to figure out what was wrong with it, so I decided to just read it and the others in the series in my Kindle app. This is the first time in many years that I've even loaded the Kindle app, let alone read anything in it. I was really impressed with the spit and polish and the look of the app. It's really nice. I'm considering switching to it as my main reader. That being said, I have a large collection of epubs. I don't mind converting them to azw3, but I'm not 100% sure where to sideload them to.

I found three Kindle directories on my Android tablet.

/data/data/com.amazon.kindle
/sdcard/Android/data/com.amazon.kindle
/storage/6C85-080E/Android/data/com.amazon.kindle

The first obviously requires the tablet to be rooted to even see this directory, let alone access it, so I'm pretty sure this one wasn't meant to be used by most users. The second is the user accessible Kindle directory on the tablet itself, and the third is the Kindle directory on my SD card. They all have a Files subdirectory. I'd prefer to have my books on my SD card, so I tried putting some in the Files directory of that location, but they never showed up in the app. If I put them in the same directory under the location on my tablet they show up.

I have two questions. One, is there any way to force the app to use the Files location under the Kindle directory on my SD card? Second, wherever I wind up having to put them to get them to work, can I create subdirectories under the Files directory to organize my books? I realize this won't have anything to do with how they appear in the app. I'm just wanting to keep my the directory structure that I've had established from years of use, if possible, rather than just have a massive directory of randomly dumped books.

Thanks.

09-22-2019, 08:59 AM	#1
bfollowell Fanatic Posts: 541 Karma: 1152752 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Evansville, IN, USA Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook & Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5	Sideloading to Android Kindle app? I've been having more and more problems with my reader of choice of the past several years, Bookari. It's still a great reader overall, but it just has some quirks. I was able to recently download a new Amazon shorts series of short stories called the Forward collection, so I converted those to epub and was reading them in Bookari when one of the stories just ended. You could tell there was something wrong with the book, which I verified by opening it in the Kindle app. It was fine there. This was a short story, so it wasn't worth my time to troubleshoot and edit the book to figure out what was wrong with it, so I decided to just read it and the others in the series in my Kindle app. This is the first time in many years that I've even loaded the Kindle app, let alone read anything in it. I was really impressed with the spit and polish and the look of the app. It's really nice. I'm considering switching to it as my main reader. That being said, I have a large collection of epubs. I don't mind converting them to azw3, but I'm not 100% sure where to sideload them to. I found three Kindle directories on my Android tablet. /data/data/com.amazon.kindle /sdcard/Android/data/com.amazon.kindle /storage/6C85-080E/Android/data/com.amazon.kindle The first obviously requires the tablet to be rooted to even see this directory, let alone access it, so I'm pretty sure this one wasn't meant to be used by most users. The second is the user accessible Kindle directory on the tablet itself, and the third is the Kindle directory on my SD card. They all have a Files subdirectory. I'd prefer to have my books on my SD card, so I tried putting some in the Files directory of that location, but they never showed up in the app. If I put them in the same directory under the location on my tablet they show up. I have two questions. One, is there any way to force the app to use the Files location under the Kindle directory on my SD card? Second, wherever I wind up having to put them to get them to work, can I create subdirectories under the Files directory to organize my books? I realize this won't have anything to do with how they appear in the app. I'm just wanting to keep my the directory structure that I've had established from years of use, if possible, rather than just have a massive directory of randomly dumped books. Thanks.