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Old 08-11-2009, 01:30 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by NormHart View Post
I jacked the Kindle into my PC and moved the ebook (prc) and it's [sic] associated mbp file to a backup folder on the Kindle and copied a fresh version of the prc from my PC to the documents folder on the Kindle.

Sure enough the new ebook was marked "keep" but, oddly, the Kindle had remembered where I was in the ebook, which I had thought was a function of the mbp file.
Nothing odd about that at all, actually. The Kindle reads *all* files within the entire directory tree under /documents, regardless of any sub-folders that you may have created. In other words, any items you move from /documents to /documents/backup/ will still be read and show up on your home page. When you moved your original prc and mbp to a sub-directory, it still found and read your original mbp file.

If you want to create an on-Kindle backup (for some reason), just create a new top-level directory.

By the way, did you know that you can put a zip file of jpgs in the /documents folder and the Kindle will create a home page entry with the zip name and display the pics when you select it?

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