Would Amazon find out if I edit and fix the error of my ebooks?

[Barbara1955]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Only if they get enough complaints.

Not always. Tho depending on the problem could take time. Took 10 days for one I reported to be fixed. Amazon sent me an e-mail letting me know & we Swapped e-books. There were like 6-8 Duplicated Chapters in the e-book.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Not always. Tho depending on the problem could take time. Took 10 days for one I reported to be fixed. Amazon sent me an e-mail letting me know & we Swapped e-books. There were like 6-8 Duplicated Chapters in the e-book.

Not bad.
I figured the OP was talking about spelling errors.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Not bad.
I figured the OP was talking about spelling errors.

See thread https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...wpost&t=270066

Baen forwarded the list to us, and we identified -- wait for it -- THREE incidences of Actual Misspelled Words (the rest were made-up scifi words, and most of them were "cermacrete"), four instances of missing commas (which Amazon had not pinpointed as errors), and one instance of two words that were smushed together.

Yeah, that's it. Amazon pulled our omnibus, without notice, for containing three spelling errors across a 1200-page book.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by HarryT

As long as it has a different filename, it will happily coexist. It doesn't need to have a unique title.

Except, of course, that that is incorrect.

It also has to have a different exth 113 (ASIN) record, or else the Content Catalog will get in a snit. e.g. by collections (you can end up with "ghost" books).

Fortunately, calibre conversions will generate an exth 113 field from a UUID, unless you manually set it with Quality Check or something.
Unfortunately, if you send multiple copies of the same book with multiple tweaked titles (so they end up having different filenames and the second one doesn't overwrite the first), they will have the same exth 113 header and that is the primary cause of this issue.

[stumped]

so the simple answer please, I am not following all of that generate exth 133 stuff ?

assuming a conversion is done with calibre's defaults - & that title etc is not changed. can the original and the converted books co-exist on kindle or is there some "113" issue clash ?
yes/no/maybe ?

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Fortunately, calibre conversions will generate an exth 113 field from a UUID, unless you manually set it with Quality Check or something.

The only reason I said anything is on technical grounds, because it was incorrect -- even if most people don't have to worry about that. It's basically just nitpicky details for perfectionist helpdesk-ers.

calibre conversions are always unique.

You have to deliberately modify the metadata headers to create a clash.

That, or change the title in calibre and update the metadata of an existing book, then send both copies to your Kindle... which implies keeping two ebooks that are absolutely identical other than the title. But there is no reason to do that if the contents are the same, right?
So that doesn't tend to happen either.

...

Apologies if I have caused unnecessary confusion.

[DaveFalcon73]

Originally Posted by barryem

I buy my books from Amazon and then remove the DRM and upload a mobi version to my library at Amazon. I do this so I can read it on a variety of devices and not have to worry about it. But I got nervous about getting in trouble with Amazon for doing this so I called Kindle support to see how they feel about it.

The guy asked around and called me back the next day and said no-one there could see any problem with it, even his supervisor, and that some of the support people also did that.

I've been doing it ever since and so far never a problem. About the Book doesn't work when I do this. Presumably neither will popular highlights but since I keep them turned off I can't be sure. Syncing works just fine between my Kindles.

Barry

Hi Barry, I' quite surprised that Amazon would say it's no problem in removing the DRM, did you mention this part? I would have thought they would say it may break their T&C's but you never know, a lot of these 'support' departments (I used to run one) don't always have the brightest of individuals or just give out mis-information.

That said, I've just started using Calibre myself. My main reason was to de-DRM the books. I've been reading ebooks since the start of dawn, for me that was in the early 90's back in the Palm Pilot and Palm DB days. Then went onto Peanut Press and eReader.com where I purchased about 500 ebooks, sadly B&N bought them out and closed them down, I never could get the conversion to convert my books over to B&N so lost them all. Lately I've actually been re-purchasing the better author books and re-reading them again on my Kindles but it got me thinking. I doubt Amazon will ever drop off the face of the earth but different formats can overcome others, it wouldn't surprise me if Google or Apple with iBooks became the de facto standard in decades to come. I'd hate to lose all of my Kindle purchased ebooks, so I started to de-DRM them with Calibre.

My main question to you is, are you sending them to your Kindle via the Send to Kindle service, and if so are they working okay, like no problems with your account? Or are you just side loading them? I've been side loading them up until now as I wasn't sure but would prefer to have them appear in my Amazon Cloud so I can access them on several of my Kindle devices easily without having to side load to each device.