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UPDATE on this issue. SO FAR it only happened on just this one day. Every since, the New York Times epub versions emailed successfully to my Kindle address (and to the Amazon Kindle Cloud)


Only happened just today (for now). Was working fine yesterday and previously (EDIT: and every day since). And only for New York Times. Other recipes being download in epub format today are sent to Kindle via email with no problem.

I've tried downloading and (auto) emailing these epub formats for NYT several ways. I've used the regular recipe in calibre. I've used my own customized recipe, which only adds "left aligned" text formatting. I'ver tried the "Web" version. I've tried all of the above with tweaking the recipe to omit all images. ALL OF THEM DOWNLOAD AND ARE FORMATTED AS EPUBS AND ARE PERFECTLY READABLE IN CALIBRE.

BUT on emaiing them to KIndle I get an email from Amazon saying they could not be sent because they are not in an accepted format, even though EPUB is explicitly stated in the Amazon email to be an acceptable format.

I also downloaded the NYTimes and set it to be in MOBI format and that was delivered to Kndle by email with no problem.

In desperation, I also downloaded the Web version as an epub, converted it to AZW3, then used Kindle Unpack to extract the KF8 as an epub. I then used the desktop Send to Kindle app to send that extracted epub by changing the "epub" extension to "jpg". That always works, But not in this case. That file never got to the Kindle. Just to be sure that still works, I used the desktop app to send another epub book with the extension changed to "jpg". That still works. But not for the New York Times.

I then downloaded a couple of other recipes in EPUB format and those were emailed to Kindle with no problem. Actually, this morning, at the same time that the NYTimes was automatically downloaded and emailed, both the Print and Web versions of the Financial Times were also downloaded automatically as epubs and were successfully sent to Kindle via email.

Maybe this is just a weird one day, one-off occurrence. But at least today there must be something on the NYTimes website that is not playing bice with the epub formatting, but it isn't affecting the mobi format. It's creating corrupted epubs that Amazon doesn't recognize as epubs.

Hope this goes away tomorrow. We'll see.