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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
Basically, if you consider those three things: - Syncing of last page read across devices
- Book covers
- Advanced text formatting
Unless your Kindle is still on a fairly old version of the firmware (i.e. lower than 5.8.5), it is not possible to have all three. You can have: - 1 and 2 (but not 3) by using the "Old" MOBI format
- 1 and 3 (but not 2) by using "Both" as the MOBI format, or converting to AZW3
- 2 and 3 (but not 1) by sideloading your books via USB
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What I noticed is, that if I change the MOBI Output setting from "both" to either "old" or "new", the sync between my Android phone and Kindle worked like a charm!
But with the setting on "both" it was back at the lottery.
The cover did never show up on my Kindle, though, no matter the setting.
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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
Indeed when using "Both" you get a file that contains two versions of the book, one in the old MOBI format, and one in AZW3. When you send the file to amazon, their servers keep both versions. If you request your book from an older Kindle, then you will get the MOBI version, because those kindles don't support AZW3. If your Kindle does support it, then the AZW3 version will be downloaded to your Kindle.
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This does sound like an optimal solution, but - for me at least - proofs very fragile in comparison to how reliable whispersync works on "new" or "old" setting for MOBI.
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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
As far as I know there is no "New" option, because "New" would be a plain AZW3 file, so you would convert directly to AZW3 in Calibre instead.
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There is a "new" setting, actually. I took a
screenshot of it.
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Originally Posted by odamizu
Send to Kindle is the easiest. Officially, Send to Kindle does not accept epub files, but if you change the file extension to .txt or .png (yes, an image format), Send to Kindle thinks it's .txt or .png rather than .epub and will accept it, run it through KindleGen, and voila, you get a dual-mobi file in your Kindle Personal Documents library that syncs. iOS (and Android??) will receive old mobi format, so the cover works, but eink Kindles get azw3/KF8, so no cover.
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So, in essence it should be the same as having the MOBI Output set to "both"? Because here the sync does not really work as expected.
Or is there something fundamentally different when pushing the file through KindleGen locally and not automatically like when sending the book via mail?
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Originally Posted by odamizu
Using the Send to Kindle desktop app is preferable to email because then you can input the title and author. If you Send to Kindle via email, the title will be the filename and the author will be the email address. |
I gotta say, I never noticed that either the title or the author got screwed up when sending the book via mail to my Kindle. Neither on the phone nor the eBook reader itself.
You mean when e.g. "clicking" and holding on the book cover to get to the detailed info of the book, right?