Loses popular highlights ability

JoeD · 11-17-2011, 08:30 PM

I downloaded a book (pride and prejudice) from amazon.co.uk to the kindle, then transfered it to calibre (which removed the drm). Then as a test I removed the book from the device and sent the drm-free version back to the kindle.

The book opens fine, but the popular highlights option is now grayed out, where as the original download had tons of highlights visible (and does again if I delete the book and re-download it from the archive).

I read that removing drm and making meta data edits (such as fixing the title or author or changing cover) would not prevent popular highlights working as it's based on the asin, is this not the case? Or have I got an option incorrectly configured?

The book in the calibre library shows nothing in the ID field after removing the drm, setting it to "isbn:0978787110, amazon_uk:B000JMLFLW" via download metadata likewise does not help, nor does adding "asin:B000JMLFLW" to the list. I've tried converting from mobi to mobi to force the metadata to update and tranfered to the kindle, new metadata is there but again no popular highlights are available.

Is there anyway to adjust metadata of a purchased kindle book and still see popular highlights? If there is, any idea why it's not working for me?

Edit: In addition I've noticed that when the drm-free version of the book is on the device, the drm'd version still appears in the archive. It seems whatever the kindle used to identify the book (asin?) has been lost during the meta update?

kovidgoyal · 11-17-2011, 08:45 PM

Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output check the share not stnc checkbox

JoeD · 11-17-2011, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output check the share not stnc checkbox

Just tried that and popular highlights still remains grayed out.

kovidgoyal · 11-17-2011, 09:19 PM

Then I have no idea. calibre itself does not overwrite an existing ASIN.

JoeD · 11-17-2011, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Then I have no idea. calibre itself does not overwrite an existing ASIN.

I'm at a loss too. Without the tick box checked, i can sync to last page read but not see popular highlights and with it checked can't sync to last page but still cannot see popular highlights

Has anyone done the above and had it work? If so there must be something i've changed that's removing the asin or otherwise stopping it from working.

JoeD · 11-18-2011, 07:31 AM

Done a little more experimenting this morning and noticed that the problem appears to be that the kindle is not downloading popular highlights if a book is already on the device. It only downloads the highlghts file at the same time as the book is origially downloaded from the archive.

So if I download from archive, then move book+associated file to PC and then move just the book azw straight back to the device, the popular highlights are obviously missing, but the kindle makes no attempt to redownload them.

So it looks like calibre/conversion doesn't come into the equation at all. Just need to find out how to get popular highlights info redownloaded when a book has been loaded via usb rather than from the archive.

11-17-2011, 08:30 PM	#1
JoeD Guru Posts: 895 Karma: 4383958 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: na	Loses popular highlights ability I downloaded a book (pride and prejudice) from amazon.co.uk to the kindle, then transfered it to calibre (which removed the drm). Then as a test I removed the book from the device and sent the drm-free version back to the kindle. The book opens fine, but the popular highlights option is now grayed out, where as the original download had tons of highlights visible (and does again if I delete the book and re-download it from the archive). I read that removing drm and making meta data edits (such as fixing the title or author or changing cover) would not prevent popular highlights working as it's based on the asin, is this not the case? Or have I got an option incorrectly configured? The book in the calibre library shows nothing in the ID field after removing the drm, setting it to "isbn:0978787110, amazon_uk:B000JMLFLW" via download metadata likewise does not help, nor does adding "asin:B000JMLFLW" to the list. I've tried converting from mobi to mobi to force the metadata to update and tranfered to the kindle, new metadata is there but again no popular highlights are available. Is there anyway to adjust metadata of a purchased kindle book and still see popular highlights? If there is, any idea why it's not working for me? Edit: In addition I've noticed that when the drm-free version of the book is on the device, the drm'd version still appears in the archive. It seems whatever the kindle used to identify the book (asin?) has been lost during the meta update? Last edited by JoeD; 11-17-2011 at 08:32 PM.

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11-17-2011, 08:45 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,347 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output check the share not stnc checkbox

11-17-2011, 09:19 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,347 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Then I have no idea. calibre itself does not overwrite an existing ASIN.

11-18-2011, 07:31 AM	#6
JoeD Guru Posts: 895 Karma: 4383958 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: na	Done a little more experimenting this morning and noticed that the problem appears to be that the kindle is not downloading popular highlights if a book is already on the device. It only downloads the highlghts file at the same time as the book is origially downloaded from the archive. So if I download from archive, then move book+associated file to PC and then move just the book azw straight back to the device, the popular highlights are obviously missing, but the kindle makes no attempt to redownload them. So it looks like calibre/conversion doesn't come into the equation at all. Just need to find out how to get popular highlights info redownloaded when a book has been loaded via usb rather than from the archive.

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