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Originally Posted by Josieb1
If you email, or use Send to Kindle, mobi files you cannot bold the font or see the covers,
If you sideload AZW files using a usb you can bold the font but I had issues with some files not showing even though calibre said they were on my kindle. Sometimes when files turned up they would be duplicated, and files that wouldn’t stay in collections. If you connect your kindle to the cloud immediately after loading AZW files you lose the cover, but it comes back when you reconnect to calibre. Not sure what happens with covers if you don’t use calibre.
In the end it just became a headache so I no longer try and read non Amazon ebooks on my kindle.
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You keep saying that you can not bold the font or see the covers of books sent using send to kindle, but I'm not sure why, because I promise you that I can.
A week or so ago, I sent 37 books to my Kindle cloud using Send to Kindle, and I can adjust the boldness and the cover displays as my sleep cover. I don't see the covers in "grid view" on my Kindle, but I never use that. They can't be put into collections automatically using Calibre, but I was able to quickly and easily add all of them to a collection on my "Content & Devices" page on my Amazon account, and they showed up in the collection on all of my Kindles. Because they are in my Kindle Cloud, my progress syncs automatically on all of my Kindles and on my phone. The pictures below are from one of those books.
I'm not trying to convince anyone to buy a Kindle--I really don't care what you get. I'm just trying to debunk the myth that you can't adjust boldness or have the cover show. I also want to debunk the "collections are a hassle" myth on Kindles.
If you're someone who never turns on wifi and doesn't want to sync their books, then yes...you're better off with a different reader, and Kobos are great. If you're interested in reading the same book on more than one device, Kindles are great, no matter *where* you buy your books from. If you want to read a lot of library books, and you don't live in the US, Kobos are better.
Shari