MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Troubleshooting Sideloaded Books to Kindle App via Calibre Dont Sync to Goodreads

shamanNS · 03-02-2025, 06:11 AM

Goodreads sync does the book matching by checking ASIN ID values. The only ASIN values Amazon & Goodreads know about ( = have in their databases) are those assigned to books in Kindle Store. So if your "sideloaded" books are actually converted, generated by Calibre those files naturally will not use the same ASIN value as a retail Kindle Store books and Goodreads sync won't work.

Not sure about how Kindle app behaves but on Kindle eInk devices people could and used to be able to get the "Goodreads integration" to work by manually finding and adding the ASIN value into "ids" metadata field in Calibre that same book has on the Kindle Store and then using Calibre's QualityCheck plugin to "apply" it to mobi or azw3 files before finally sending the book to Kindle device via USB cable.

03-02-2025, 06:11 AM	#2
shamanNS Wizard Posts: 1,123 Karma: 12345678 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Serbia Device: Kindle PW5, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle PW1	Goodreads sync does the book matching by checking ASIN ID values. The only ASIN values Amazon & Goodreads know about ( = have in their databases) are those assigned to books in Kindle Store. So if your "sideloaded" books are actually converted, generated by Calibre those files naturally will not use the same ASIN value as a retail Kindle Store books and Goodreads sync won't work. Not sure about how Kindle app behaves but on Kindle eInk devices people could and used to be able to get the "Goodreads integration" to work by manually finding and adding the ASIN value into "ids" metadata field in Calibre that same book has on the Kindle Store and then using Calibre's QualityCheck plugin to "apply" it to mobi or azw3 files before finally sending the book to Kindle device via USB cable. Last edited by shamanNS; 03-02-2025 at 06:14 AM.