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Originally Posted by yasdig
Hi thanks for the reply,
Sorry I don't have any experience in converting e-books. It's my first time using Calibre and I selected to convert to MOBI. The device I am having the issue with not being able to see any of the pages of that MOBI file is the 4th/5th Generation Kindle that I linked to the wiki. As an experiment I opened the same MOBI file on my new PPW and it worked.
I just checked and the files I have are ePUB3. The MOBI file that worked on the old Kindle was converted from ePUB2.
I have no real idea how to do this but I just want to convert these ePUB files correctly, in Calibre or otherwise, so that they can be read on the 4th Generation Kindle. I have no preference or requirement as to what file type the end result is, as long as the pages show up correctly.
Thanks again.
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Yes, you've tried older mobi, but the problem is, you're feeding it a file that it
cannot read, mobi or otherwise.
ePUB3 is absolutely not compatible with a Kindle from 2011. You can't get there from here, in short.
You could open the ePUB3 file in Sigil and try to "downconvert" it to ePUB2, but you'd also need to know enough to know what ALSO needs to be done, besides giving it an NCX and a toc.html file, rather than a NAV file. It's entirely possible that other entities or elements are used, too, that would be incompatible.
So, the problem isn't the output format of MOBI, which is what you need for a Kindle from 2011. It's the input format that you're trying to automagically make into a Kindle MOBI eBook. You can either learn enough about ePUB to fix the ePUB3 file and then make a mobi, or just bite the bullet and buy the book in a compatible format from Amazon.
HTH.
Hitch