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Old 09-06-2025, 08:57 PM   #76
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Apparently, redditors have been complaining about sideloading books running into some weird "ASIN" problem with Amazon requiring sideloaded books to pass an ASIN "sniff test" - and books that don't match up are unable to open.

Apparently, they want you to use their send to kindle feature.
Ye gods. What next?
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Old 09-07-2025, 06:49 AM   #77
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Apparently, redditors have been complaining about sideloading books running into some weird "ASIN" problem with Amazon requiring sideloaded books to pass an ASIN "sniff test" - and books that don't match up are unable to open.

Apparently, they want you to use their send to kindle feature.
This is happening on Kindle 5.18.4.0.1. Versions 5.18.3 and earlier don't have this problem. There is a workaround to open your sideloaded books by clicking on the three dots menu (or long press on a book cover thumbnail) and choose "Go To." In my case, it only seems to happen on books sideloaded after the update to 5.18.4.0.1. But that is perhaps because I had already opened the books I had previously sideloaded before my kindle updated to the latest.

It should be noted that Amazon's customer support specifically told me to convert my books to epub with Calibre and then use the Send To Kindle. Another representative told me to reset my Kindle. I may try resetting it. But this update to the kindle firmware is definitely breaking sideloading. I'm going to try to manually copying a book and cover to the Documents/Thumbnails folder on my kindle and see what happens.
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Old 09-07-2025, 08:11 AM   #78
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I'm going to try to manually copying a book and cover to the Documents/Thumbnails folder on my kindle and see what happens.
Quick update. I manually copied a public domain AZW3 ebook and cover from Standard Ebooks into the kindle and that opened just fine. I don't know why that is.

I note that the Standard Ebook I copied just now has a mobi-asin. Of the books that gave me problems, one that I transferred using Calibre had an "amazon:" ID, and another didn't have any Amazon style ASIN but it did have a Goodreads, Google, ISBN and epl in the metadata. Maybe that info will be helpful...?
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Shooting off their feet?

And I thought the Scribe's Amazon stupidity with needing PDFs to go through Amazon twice was mad. Otherwise I'd have bought a Scribe for PDFs.
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This thread is obsolete. The real thread is over here at Amazon Removed books from my Kindle.
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