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Old 04-26-2020, 10:30 PM   #1
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How do I get the book descriptions included when sending e books by email or by transferring from my Calibre library to my kindle e reader. I get author, titles, covers, contents etc but not the book description.
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Where in the Kindle user interface are you expecting the book description to appear?
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Old 04-26-2020, 11:00 PM   #3
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How do I get the book descriptions included when sending e books by email or by transferring from my Calibre library to my kindle e reader. I get author, titles, covers, contents etc but not the book description.
You can convert the book with the option to insert metadata as page at the start of book (Preferences/Conversion/Common Options/Structure Detection) or use Polish tool (azw3 or epub) to embed a metadata jacket. This may do what you want.

You will have to remove the old conversion options to reconvert a book with new options. This is found in the Bulk Metadata tool under Basic Metadata as Remove stored conversion settings for the selected books. Just thought I would mention that since I've had fun finding it when a re-conversion did not work as expected.

OTOH, if you are looking for something like the attached image, I don't think the Kindle firmware has that functionality.
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Preferable inside the cover page and before the Contents list.
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Old 04-26-2020, 11:27 PM   #5
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convert to azw3 and enable the insert metadata jacket feature in the conversion dialog undure structure detection. Then send the azw3 to your kindle.
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