Kindle fire wont recognise ebooks

Angela-24 · 12-10-2015, 04:21 PM

When I bought my kindle fire I transferred all my books from my old kindle fire successfully. Both Amaxon and non-amazon books were recognised as books. However, when I bought some new non-amazon books, the fire insists on storing them as documents. The books are already in mobi format.

Barbara1955 · 12-10-2015, 04:25 PM

Switch them to AZW3 format. Not only will they show as books they will have the cover art also....provided they have cover to begin with. IF they don't add covers as you convert them.

eschwartz · 12-10-2015, 04:34 PM

Hint: We have a Kindle Fire subforum for questions specifically about the Kindle Fire.

Moved.

As I understand, the Fires are more finicky about the asin/cdetype than the E-Ink devices...
If you use calibre, there is a plugin called Quality Check which can add the correct exth 113/504 fields to a MOBI/AZW3 and is designed for this purpose.

philja · 01-29-2016, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Hint: We have a Kindle Fire subforum for questions specifically about the Kindle Fire.

Moved.

As I understand, the Fires are more finicky about the asin/cdetype than the E-Ink devices...
If you use calibre, there is a plugin called Quality Check which can add the correct exth 113/504 fields to a MOBI/AZW3 and is designed for this purpose.

Thankyou eschwartz - just the sort of clue I was looking for.

I was sent a Fire HD6 as a gift. I hooked it into my pc and slid a packet of books over using the file system browser. I slid them into the books folder in the kindle file structure but many ended up in the documents folder. I didn't know until today (from this forum) that Calibre could hook directly into the Fire device.

Two that ended up in the wrong place were ones that I authored and formatted for kindle via epub and kindlegen. I didn't see the point of buying copies of my own books from Amazon.

Your clues lead me to install QualityCheck and that enabled me to see what metadata was missing. I downloaded the metadata, deleted the books from 'docs' on the device and reset the devices metadata using Calibre. Then resent the books to the device using just the AZw format and lo and behold, there they are : now nicely in the books folder.

eschwartz · 01-29-2016, 03:50 PM

Happy to help!

And hopefully the OP was helped too -- not everyone responds to say the problem was fixed, so who knows.

12-10-2015, 04:21 PM	#1
Angela-24 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2015 Device: Kindle fire HD6hotbiooaech	Kindle fire wont recognise ebooks When I bought my kindle fire I transferred all my books from my old kindle fire successfully. Both Amaxon and non-amazon books were recognised as books. However, when I bought some new non-amazon books, the fire insists on storing them as documents. The books are already in mobi format.

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12-10-2015, 04:25 PM	#2
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,455 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	Switch them to AZW3 format. Not only will they show as books they will have the cover art also....provided they have cover to begin with. IF they don't add covers as you convert them.

12-10-2015, 04:34 PM	#3
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Hint: We have a Kindle Fire subforum for questions specifically about the Kindle Fire. Moved. As I understand, the Fires are more finicky about the asin/cdetype than the E-Ink devices... If you use calibre, there is a plugin called Quality Check which can add the correct exth 113/504 fields to a MOBI/AZW3 and is designed for this purpose.

01-29-2016, 03:50 PM	#5
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Happy to help! And hopefully the OP was helped too -- not everyone responds to say the problem was fixed, so who knows.