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Old 12-18-2020, 12:23 PM   #1
bigeyes
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Device: Kindle Oasis; Fire HD 8 Plus
Kindles Oasis not seeing Mobi periodical/magazine file

I have a newest generation Kindle Oasis with the latest firmware. I have downloaded a magazine using Calibre in Mobi format that used to work just fine on older units and until recently seemed to work just fine on the Oasis using a recent version of Calibre. I just sideloaded the Mobi file to the Kindles.

Today I was unable to get the Kindle to recognize the Mobi file. I tried the standard trick of restarting the Kindle, but no luck. It looks like the Oasis did standard conversions of the Mobi when I looked in the document file; but nothing showed up when I looked in the library. Oddly enough the library seemed to know there was a document to be read; because there was a number in the bottom left corner. But opening the folder did not show any documents.

I was able to convert the original file to AZW3 and was able to read that. I tended to like the way the menu structures worked for the magazine in Mobi format. To be specific I liked the ability to get a table of contents by clicking on the top part of the page

I did experiment with doing the downloads in Caibre in both EPUB and MOBI formats but that made no difference.

Any suggestions or thoughts on what may be going on?

Last edited by bigeyes; 12-18-2020 at 12:26 PM.
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