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Old 10-22-2022, 08:18 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by JBaby View Post
No, it’s not. Books sideloaded via USB are books in Kindle. It doesn’t matter if you’ve dragged and dropped it or had Calibre do it for you.
If your sideloaded file has metadata indicating that it is a "book" [CDETYPE=EBOK] then it will appear as a book when added via USB. However if that metadata is not set then it will appear as a doc instead. (Send via email or send-to-kindle forces the metadata to make it a "doc". [CDETYPE=PDOC])

Calibre usually sets that metadata, but it might not always be present depending on your calibre settings or if the file was produced elsewhere.
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