Modifying body of email sent through Calibre

[digen]

Hi Folks,

I've setup a Google account to send ebook(MOBI) via Calibre to my kindle email address.

The email is getting delivered successfully and I am able to see the ebook on the Kindle.

However, the email contains a body which is perhaps messing with Amazon's system due to which highlights and notes I make in the ebook do not show on kindle.amazon.com

Speaking with an Amazon support representative, he confirmed that the body of the email needs to be empty with only the ebook as attachment and subject as "Convert".

Can someone guide me where I can edit the body of the email which Calibre sends out ?

[kovidgoyal]

The body of the email is irrelevant, your Amazon rep was talking through his hat. If you dont want the book comments field sent with the email there is an option to control that in Preferences->Sharing by email

[eschwartz]

"Convert" in the subject field is for Amazon to convert the book themselves. calibre already sends a MOBI which your Kindle can read without conversions, so... no need to convert.
I have never known the email body to mess things up, and many many many many many people use calibre to email books to their Kindle.


Notes and highlights are completely different. If you've gotten that far, then your books were already sent, yes?
I don't think notes will be saved if you don't have the option in http://amzn.com/myk set to enable syncing annotations.
I am also not sure whether Amazon supports online viewing of annotations for Personal Documents, so that may not work anyway.

I'm not really 100% positive since I don't really pay attention to http://kindle.amazon.com
Regardless, it involves the actions of your account once it has already received the book.

[digen]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The body of the email is irrelevant, your Amazon rep was talking through his hat. If you dont want the book comments field sent with the email there is an option to control that in Preferences->Sharing by email

kovidgoyal, I am running 2.44.0 on Mac OSX, are you referring to "Add comments metadata as text to the email" ?

[digen]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

"Convert" in the subject field is for Amazon to convert the book themselves. calibre already sends a MOBI which your Kindle can read without conversions, so... no need to convert.
I have never known the email body to mess things up, and many many many many many people use calibre to email books to their Kindle.


Notes and highlights are completely different. If you've gotten that far, then your books were already sent, yes?
I don't think notes will be saved if you don't have the option in http://amzn.com/myk set to enable syncing annotations.
I am also not sure whether Amazon supports online viewing of annotations for Personal Documents, so that may not work anyway.

I'm not really 100% positive since I don't really pay attention to http://kindle.amazon.com
Regardless, it involves the actions of your account once it has already received the book.

eschwartz, yes that's correct. The books appear on the kindle and tagged as "personal".

As per AmazonStrangely, unable to locate the option 'Annotations Backup' on the Kindle Paperwhite.

The solution I was looking for is for highlights and notes made to these books marked as "personal" to show up on kindle.amazon.com. I was under the impression, perhaps the body field in the email sent by Calibre is messing that up. Doesn't seem so.

Thanks for looking into this folks. Now that it's established that Calibre email isn't causing any problems, I'll poke Amazon support a bit more and see where it leads me to. Have a good one !

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by digen

kovidgoyal, I am running 2.44.0 on Mac OSX, are you referring to "Add comments metadata as text to the email" ?

yes .