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Originally Posted by KACartlidge
Yes, I know. That's the point.
Amazon state RTF support, so how does one get Amazon's official methods of loading RTFs to fully support RTF metadata?
I do not care (and have accepted all along) that Amazon do a conversion to get it to the device. I do not care if the end result is a mobi. The only issue is the simple task of transferring an RTF to the Kindle, with no intervening third party software (like Calibre), and have the Kindle display it, regardless of the eventual format on the device, with title and author metadata.
I have a large collection of RTF files. They all have metadata understood by MS Word and the Sony PRS-505. I want to simply zip them up, send them over (kindle.com), and have the Kindle understand their title and author on arrival. No intervening step. No third party conversion. They state RTF support, so this should work - but doesn't. They arrive minus metadata.
I accept there are conversions that will retain the metadata. I like and use RTF. Amazon say RTF is supported. Therefore I would like to not have to do conversions with 3rd party software in advance of commencing the transfer.
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Just a thought, but using RTF on a Kindle through conversion to MOBI is a huge waste of formatting. Much of the formatting in a RTF file will be lost when converted to MOBI (or ePub if you have a Sony reader or a Nook). If you absolutely want to retain most or all of the formatting you need to use MS Word to convert the files to PDF.
If the formatting is not a huge issue, then I would use calibre to do the conversions to MOBI as calibre will typically do conversions a lot better than Amazon. Try it out. Add a RTF file you created into calibre and see if calibre correctly reads the metadata. If it does use calibre to do batch conversions. If calibre does not correctly read your RTF metadata, then you might have entered it incorrectly.