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Originally Posted by Mudchild
Hi all, new here, and am wading through all this new info to try and make sense of what happened - my Kindle suddenly lost all the sideloaded books along with their precious highlights, after the on/off switch got trapped under the finger strap, causing multiple restarts...
However connecting to the computer shows that all the sideloaded books are still on the device, not wiped or removed - the Kindle just stopped seeing them somehow.
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The entries in cc.db for the books got changed.
One column is named something like is_visible.
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Also MyClippings is still up to date with the most recent highlights I made before the incident.
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MyClippings.txt is just a log file. The kindle only ever writes to it, never reads. The loacations of the highlights for a book are stored in a file in the .sdr directory
for that book.
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What I'm wondering is, is there any way to get the Kindle to see the books again, along with their highlights? I'm imagining that just dragging all the books back on from Calibre would probably mean I would definitely not see my highlights again...
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Copy the entire documents directory on the kindle to a computer, then delete or move all the books and .sdr directories in the documents directory on the kindle. Then copy the books and .sdr directories from the computer back to the documents directory on the kindle over USB. Then safely eject the kindle. The books should show up as "new" and when you open them the highlights should be there.
If you use any other method to tranfer the books, the metadata might change in a way that the contents of the old .sdr don't correspond to the book files then they might not be recognized as matching.
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Any pointers much appreciated!
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If the kindle is jailbroken, it might be possible to manipulate cc.db to make the books show up again, which would be easier for some and next to impossible for most.