Kindle Oasis no longer displays catalogs as periodicals

Sirtel · 08-29-2018, 08:05 AM

I've started to have problems with the way my Kindle Oasis (2017, firmware 5.9.6.1) displays calibre catalogs. Until recently, when I generated a calibre catalog in .mobi format and sent it to my Kindle from Calibre, it was displayed as a periodical, with Author, Title etc sections. Now it's displayed as a personal document, with no table of contents at all, and there's no way to navigate it. To my knowledge nothing has changed in the way I generate the catalog. Nothing is stuck indexing on the Oasis. I have the latest Calibre 64-bit on a Windows 10 computer.

What is really weird, both my Voyage and my Oasis 2016 are on the same firmware and still display catalogs correctly.

Any thoughts, anyone?

kovidgoyal · 08-29-2018, 08:30 AM

calibre's catalog subsystem is unmaintained, so nothing has changed there in a very long time. If it works on some kindles and not the others, it sounds like a bug on that Kindle.

Sirtel · 08-30-2018, 01:41 AM

Well, updating the Kindle to the latest firmware didn't change anything. So I just created the catalog in azw3 format now, instead of mobi. Still not a periodical, but at least it has a decent ToC and I can work with that.

08-29-2018, 08:05 AM	#1
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,224 Karma: 237677417 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Kindle Oasis no longer displays catalogs as periodicals I've started to have problems with the way my Kindle Oasis (2017, firmware 5.9.6.1) displays calibre catalogs. Until recently, when I generated a calibre catalog in .mobi format and sent it to my Kindle from Calibre, it was displayed as a periodical, with Author, Title etc sections. Now it's displayed as a personal document, with no table of contents at all, and there's no way to navigate it. To my knowledge nothing has changed in the way I generate the catalog. Nothing is stuck indexing on the Oasis. I have the latest Calibre 64-bit on a Windows 10 computer. What is really weird, both my Voyage and my Oasis 2016 are on the same firmware and still display catalogs correctly. Any thoughts, anyone?

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08-29-2018, 08:30 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,216 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre's catalog subsystem is unmaintained, so nothing has changed there in a very long time. If it works on some kindles and not the others, it sounds like a bug on that Kindle.

08-30-2018, 01:41 AM	#3
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,224 Karma: 237677417 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Well, updating the Kindle to the latest firmware didn't change anything. So I just created the catalog in azw3 format now, instead of mobi. Still not a periodical, but at least it has a decent ToC and I can work with that.

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