Thread: Amazon's flawed conversion of epubs
View Single Post
Old 11-29-2022, 05:50 PM   #28
JSWolf
Resident Curmudgeon
JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
JSWolf's Avatar
 
Posts: 79,862
Karma: 146918083
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
Quote:
Originally Posted by A Lurker View Post
As a coupe other people have pointed out, the advantage of emailing your book is that it gets save to the Amazon cloud so that it's available on any device and the reading progress is tracked. That doesn't happen when you sideload a book via USB because it's not added to the Amazon cloud.

Anyway, every time I've tried to send an azw3 to my Kindle it's been rejected as an unsupported format. Which I realize makes no sense since that's the preferred format. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. Perhaps I need to correct something in the Calibre settings, like the UTF-8 encoding I'm now doing with epub?
The reason KF8 will not work with emailing to Amazon is that you can sync your purchased KF8 direct from Amazon. Amazon wants you to buy eBooks from them. So they won't support KF8 or KFX. ePub is something you cannot get from Amazon which is why they are supporting it even if not all that great a job doing so.
JSWolf is offline   Reply With Quote