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Originally Posted by tomsem
With ability to set system time directly, I assume Kindle is not assuming GMT time.
For example, to overwrite a Scribe Notebook (restore some previous version or replace with a copy of another notebook), I have had to set modify date so it is in future of GMT time to get it to sync. Hopefully that's not necessary any longer.
I think this time offset was also responsible for 'disappearing covers' of side-loaded-by-calibre content (but was never able to reproduce this).
I'll check the notebook behavior.
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Indeed, you can do a simple overwrite without having to muck with the modify timestamp: copy it to computer, copy back to new location, overwrite, and it will replace what used to be there.
The only trick is to figure out what is in the notebook folders. Viewing the thumbnail images helps with that.
So this helps with use cases:
- backup and restore - copy .notebook folder (keep track of date) and you can restore that version if you don't like what the current one has become (for extra credit run @jhowell's KFX Input plugin to generate ePub so you can view them on demand and include folder and title metadata)
- copy notebook - create placeholder notebooks (maybe with a particular template you treat by convention as 'replaceable'), identify source folder, copy the nbk from it to computer, then overwrite one of the replaceable notebooks.
A few months ago, I started working on a script to scrape the web page where Notebooks could be viewed, but then Amazon closed the front door to it. However, it turns out that with a special query parameter, and using a mobile device
user client, it is still possible to access. At some point I hope to get it working, and get the notebook/folder names and associate them with the folder GUIDs.
Yes, thumbs up for the new Settings (10th generation and later Kindles only).