non-kindle unlimited books not opening

[sherri0629]

Yes I can read books and work with calibre/usb without wi-fi on. But I also have kindle unlimited so I need to use wi-fi for that. Unfortunately while you connect it, they also try to sync what you have. But I get tons of KU books and then load them into calibre through K4PC. But I really haven't had much trouble before yesterday. I was just afraid Amazon was trying to make a further restriction on books you didn't get from them.

Thankfully it's all good (for now).

[sherri0629]

well the azw3 only worked for one day. KFX and Mobi work fine. I don't really care for kfx because it won't load series names. I haven't seen any other reports of this, but I really don't understand why it would be just me all of the sudden. As before, everything is up to date. I've restarted. I've unloaded and reloaded (through calibre). But not one single azw3 on my kindle will open. Send-to-kindle works, but again, it won't load series unless they are part of the title. I'm stumped.

[zakum]

Books sent to Kindle in azw format are getting error messages. I have tried sending them as mobi but calibre converts them to azw.
How can I make them mobi permanantly when I send them over.

TIA

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by zakum

Books sent to Kindle in azw format are getting error messages. I have tried sending them as mobi but calibre converts them to azw.
How can I make them mobi permanantly when I send them over.

TIA

If you go into Preferences and locate the Kindle2/3/4/Touch/etc. driver and open it's customization page, you can move mobi above azw3 in the formats/order screen. In the attached image, you can see azw3 then mobi. If you remove the checkmark from azw3, this should make mobi the default and force conversion of azw3 to mobi before sending. Not sure if this requires moving mobi above azw3 in the list but the simple de-select should do the job.

If you are curious as the what the full save template is:

/Elibrary/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{series:| |} {series_index:||} - {title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}

Basically, the root would be Elibrary in whatever directory your Kindle uses for documents, then the first author name in author_sort as a subdirectory. If the ebook has a series/series index they are used as the first part of the filename followed by the title and the first author name in the author list.

[Quoth]

Also you can do Dual Mobi, which puts superior azw3/KF8 inside the Mobi file.