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pjft · 07-23-2020, 06:40 AM

Hi all,

Apologies for the first question. I've been a reader of posts here at MobileRead for a long time now, but today I ran into something that wasn't yet answered so I thought I'd post it here.

I have a Kindle Paperwhite 4 8GB, on Firmware v5.12.5 .

I'm trying to set up a Calibre-based Content Server at home so that I can download books to my Kindle via WiFi.

My issue is that when trying to download large books (400MB - they're comicbooks) the download via the Experimental Browser fails at different stages - sometimes less than 100MB are transferred, other times we get close to 200MB, but nothing systematic. Not only that, I get some large .goutputstream-* files created on my Kindle that I then need to manually delete.

To troubleshoot it I first tried to download from the PC browser twice and the files were transferred successfully.
Then I tried putting the files in a different home server and downloading from there to the Kindle - still failed.
Finally I transferred the file to Google Drive, tried to download from Google Drive to the Kindle and it failed again.

Is there a known file transfer size limitation/memory/keep-alive issue that might cause these transfers to fail? Is there anything that I might want to look into that may help me identify the cause - and hopefully as well a way to fix it?

Thanks in advance for your time and do let me know if there's any further detail I can share here.

Best.

07-23-2020, 06:40 AM	#1
pjft Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2020 Device: Kindle PW4	Experimental Browser Downloads failing Hi all, Apologies for the first question. I've been a reader of posts here at MobileRead for a long time now, but today I ran into something that wasn't yet answered so I thought I'd post it here. I have a Kindle Paperwhite 4 8GB, on Firmware v5.12.5 . I'm trying to set up a Calibre-based Content Server at home so that I can download books to my Kindle via WiFi. My issue is that when trying to download large books (400MB - they're comicbooks) the download via the Experimental Browser fails at different stages - sometimes less than 100MB are transferred, other times we get close to 200MB, but nothing systematic. Not only that, I get some large .goutputstream-* files created on my Kindle that I then need to manually delete. To troubleshoot it I first tried to download from the PC browser twice and the files were transferred successfully. Then I tried putting the files in a different home server and downloading from there to the Kindle - still failed. Finally I transferred the file to Google Drive, tried to download from Google Drive to the Kindle and it failed again. Is there a known file transfer size limitation/memory/keep-alive issue that might cause these transfers to fail? Is there anything that I might want to look into that may help me identify the cause - and hopefully as well a way to fix it? Thanks in advance for your time and do let me know if there's any further detail I can share here. Best.