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Old 06-26-2017, 11:39 PM   #1
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Question Doc and Mobi formats
Calibre shows that I have most of my ebooks in the .mobi format, as well as one other format for each title. Why does my Kindle show many of my titles as .doc files? I hate the .doc format and would prefer to read a book in the .mobi format.
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Old 06-27-2017, 01:48 AM   #2
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Because that's what you put in the library. It's not something Calibre did. It's something you did.
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Calibre shows that I have most of my ebooks in the .mobi format, as well as one other format for each title. Why does my Kindle show many of my titles as .doc files? I hate the .doc format and would prefer to read a book in the .mobi format.
Are you quite sure that is what your Kindle is showing you.

Perhaps it is referring to the "class" of file. MOBI supports both "documents" and "ebooks", both can be in MOBI file format.
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What were the Preferred OUTPUT format settings under Preference:look and Feel
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What were the Preferred OUTPUT format settings under Preference:look and Feel
There's no such setting - do you mean Preferences->Behaviour->Preferred output format:

Idle Question : If I have a Kindle reader and an Android phone, how to I configure calibre to send MOBI to the Kindle, and EPUB to the phone?

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There's no such setting - do you mean Preferences->Behaviour->Preferred output format:

Idle Question : If I have a Kindle reader and an Android phone, how to I configure calibre to send MOBI to the Kindle, and EPUB to the phone?

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In the device driver for each, Move AZW3, Mobi to the top in the Kindle driver
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Under BEHAVIOR (not Look and Feel), MOBI is checked as the output format.
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Under BEHAVIOR (not Look and Feel), MOBI is checked as the output format.
That sets the conversion preferences.
Connect your device, then selectConfigure from the device icon.
Tic any formats you CAN use.
Set the order for the preferred forma.
If none of the selected formats exist in the library, the first selected will be the Auto-convert choice
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Old 06-27-2017, 06:34 PM   #9
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Class of file? I thought MOBI was the file type, like .docx, .epub, .pdf. Is .mobi and .docx both listed under docs in my Kindle Library? I am trying to find a better format to read my ebooks. It seems that there are a lot of typos and really bad formatting with the .doc files.
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Class of file? I thought MOBI was the file type, like .docx, .epub, .pdf. Is .mobi and .docx both listed under docs in my Kindle Library?
Could be. Check out calbre's Convert dialog under the "MOBI output" (visible only when converter to MOBI) and note the "Personal Doc tag" field. This can impact how a Kindle sorts its files. I'm not an authority on what works with what device or app, but there are a number of threads on MR that discus the [EBOK] and [PDOC] tags. Also, as I understand it, how the ebook was moved to the device has influence on how the Kindle sorts it.

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I am trying to find a better format to read my ebooks. It seems that there are a lot of typos and really bad formatting with the .doc files.
Typos are not the fault of the format or the reader. Formatting might be the readers "fault", but is also very likely the fault of the person who created the document.
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I did learn about unchecking Personal Doc under the Mobi conversion options, which seems to make for a somewhat better looking book. Thanks for the reply and info.
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In the device driver for each, Move AZW3, Mobi to the top in the Kindle driver
That's what I thought, but since I don't connect devices to calibre itself (they are in the ignore list) I wasn't sure.

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