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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Can you try putting some calibre generated KF8 eBook on your Kindle and see if they get deleted or not? The KFX eBook you put on your Kindle are generated by Amazon software. What I'm trying to figure out is if eBooks converted by calibre are getting deleted where eBooks converted by Amazon software do not.
Then the ones who maintain the calibre code can have a look and see what's going on to fix it. In the morning, I'll convert a few eBooks with Kindlegen and split out the Mobi part and convert with calibre and then let my PW3 sit with the Wifi on and see what happens. I'm hoping the Kindlegen ones stay and the calibre ones go. Then the problem can be fixed eventually.
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Sorry I never got around to doing this.
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Originally Posted by neil_swann80
Exactly this. If you sideload and need to use WIFI regularly a Kindle doesn't seem like a good choice. Sideloaded books vanishing is the only argument needed to defend that position.
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Why? I use KU, Overdrive, and sideload. Sideloaded content doesn’t disappear if you keep WiFi on. I haven’t lost any content.
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Originally Posted by John F
Why? I thought the theory was if you use wifi regularly and sideloaded, books wouldn't be deleted (click would regularly be updated, so no problems).
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This is just me spitballing. Personally I think this has to do with KU if it’s not an egregious bug. Whether you subscribe or not I don’t think it matters. Amazon has messed up this entire process IMO. See I think Amazon doesn’t like people subscribing and downloading their 20 books then turning on airplane mode. Authors get paid by pages read. Amazon can’t monitor that without the Kindle phoning home. This is their boneheaded way of fixing the problem. I mean it wouldn’t be the first time they’ve done something stupid. Then again I could be completely wrong.