MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Mobi Personal Doc Tag Conversion Problem

I am trying to get a mobi file (originally EPUB, but converted through calibre) to appear in the Books section of the Kindle iPad app instead of in the Docs section. I know this is a common problem that people have found ways to fix, but I’ve spent a couple of days trying all the potential solutions I can find and none of them work. I understand that the placement of the file depends on its Personal Doc tag/CDE type, and that many people have had success in changing this with calibre. I’ve done a mobi-to-mobi conversion on the file countless times, trying every trick I’ve heard of: changing the PDOC tag to EBOK both and without brackets and deleting the tag entirely (in both Preferences and the conversion screen); trying bulk convert; trying convert individually; changing the file type to “both”, “new”, and “old”; transferring the converted file to the iPad through USB (iTunes file sharing); and downloading the Mobi Meta Editor program and changing the CDE type there. No matter what I do, the file appears in the Docs section of the Kindle app, even when it appears to have the correct tag. (I wish I could test it on an actual Kindle, but I don’t have one that’s new enough to differentiate between Docs and Books.)

I can’t attach the actual file because it’s copyrighted, but I replicated the problem in a small test file. I’m attaching its three versions (EPUB, original mobi, converted mobi).

Here’s the conversion log for the EPUB-to-mobi conversion:

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And the mobi-to-mobi conversion:

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It might be relevant that when I did the EPUB-to-mobi conversion, the CDE type came out as EBOK according to Mobi Meta Editor, even though I’d tried to get it to use PDOC in order to replicate the steps I originally followed. This makes me wonder if the CDE type isn’t really changing even when it seems to be.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!