Thread: author sort for side-loaded epubs (Kindle)
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Old 09-26-2022, 10:35 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by A Lurker View Post
I just side-loaded an epub on my Kindle. The author displayed as "unknown". Odd. I converted to mobi and side-loaded that. The author was stripped again.

I don't know if there's something particular about this file's author field Amazon/my device doesn't like, or if this a new wrinkle in Amazon trying to automatically replace the metadata of side-loaded documents. I'll experiment by trying to side-load additional books later today.

I assume I'll be able to solve this hardwiring my device to my PC and syncing it with my Calibre library, but it's still annoying. Has any one seen this bug?
It's a bug in the Amazon conversion process that seems to have been introduced around September 21, 2022. Further discussion is near the end of this older thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=333506
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