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Originally Posted by jhowell
The Kindle app on Fire tablets is based on the Kindle for Android app. The exact path where it places Kindle book files depends on the model of Fire tablet and whether or not it has an SD card.
When you locate the correct path it will have as part of the path: .../Android/data/com.amazon.kindle/files/Books
That should have a subfolder based on your Amazon account ID, such as: amzn1.account.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Under that there will be one folder for each book on the device named by the 10 character ASIN of the book. For example: B082S1N87S or B003RCJNXI
Under each of those folders will be the files that make up that book along with some supplemental data. These days most books will be in KFX format with file names like CR!7TD9PMT74D3EN3ZWG2HDXDYY5T7C.kfx and amzn1.drm-voucher.v1.e4701cd1-97fb-42c2-b356-b1f7c78eeb54.ast. Books in older Kindle formats, such as MOBI or AZW3/KF8, will have a file with the extension of .prc.
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Yes, that's what I'm seeing when I dig into the tablet with my laptop's Windows UI. Still though, Calibre itself does not recognize that any of the books I have purchaed are there, even though I have it set to scan all folders (I've checked that setting many many times now). It detects every other file of a type Calibre will read that is on the tablet, but not the actual ebooks I own and want to manage. And that is the core of the problem I am writing here about.
No offense, but nothing anyone has said has come close to actually relating to the problem I am having, though I do appreciate the sentiment of their intentions.
I know that Calibre should be detecting these books. Before I got this 10th generation model of the Amazon Fire 10.1, and before the last two updates of the Calibre software (which is the last time I had plugged my previous tablet, the 9th gen, into my laptop) I had no problems with Calibre finding all of my ebooks and managing them. It just took some time when the tablet was first plugged in, depending on how many books were actually on the device at the time.
This leads me to believe that either one of two things, or a combination of the two has led to this problem: something changed in the software of the 10th Gen model, or something changed in the updates of Calibre, or a combo of the two changing.
Again, I apologize for posting this in the wrong place. I didn't know where to place it, still not sure how to navigate this forum yet (I'm a dunce, ok).
But if anyone can
I would highly appreciate it. (When I'm not pressed for time I'll post some screenshots as the one commenter suggested, since I will have to set up an account somewhere to be able to have URLs for images to share, instead of just like, you know, embedding them into the post)