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Originally Posted by Läsare
Hi
I have been using an old Kobo reader and Amazon Fire 10s to read ebooks.
Have taken the plunge and ordered Amazon's new Scribe. Will I be able to transfer pub books (DRM free) from Calibre does anybody know.
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Yes, it is possible to transfer epub files to your Kindle, but only through conversion by Amazon's servers, which comes with some important caveats:
1) Not all epub files are recognized and accepted by Amazon, and some which are accepted show up as garbled text. One way to ensure everything works fine is to load the epub in Kindle Previewer; any issue can then be identified and fixed in the epub file before sending it.
2) There is currently an issue whereby the tiles of books sent via Calibre (or via email) in the Kindle library is set to the filename of the file, not to the contents of the "Title" metadata field. As files in Calibre are all named "<Title> - <Author>.epub", the actual title of the book in your library will contain the author as well. One way around this is to use the Send To Kindle app, which correctly uses the metadata.
More info on point 2 can be found in this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=349444