How to Display Covers on Kindle Color for Books Not Bought on Amazon (Using Calibre) - Page 3

B00kReader · Yesterday, 11:34 PM

Okay, I finally got the KFX conversion to work by converting to MOBI first and then sent the books over with the plugin and they transferred with covers... but it still isn't recognizing collections? If I set it to view collections on the Kindle, it says I don't have any collections ��. If Kobo had a color reader this size I'd definitely be returning this and getting that instead. Had a few people tell me that Kindle was just as good as Kobo about treating books that you add to it as equal to purchased from Amazon books and that is clearly not the case.

B00kReader · Today, 12:03 AM

Ok one last thing (well a few things) - now that it is KFX/PDOC the stylus menu shows up on the left because now Incan mark in the book... but I don't want to mark in this book - can the be turned off somehow or am I stuck with that icon floating on the side of the book now? It also changed the page number in the bottom left to be "Loc". Is that a consequence of it being a PDOC or is there some way to get it to display page number again instead of Loc? And finally, can it show what chapter I'm on somewhere like my Kobo does or is that not a thing on Kindle? I can't seem to find any of these in settings so I'm guessing I'm SOL. Thanks again for any help!

tomsem · Today, 01:06 PM

There is a Hide Writing Toolbar option in the menu.

There's a way to generate and add page numbers, but that's all I know about it.

Chapter titles will not display in status area when you are reading, but only when you have reading options/page preview active.

You can cycle among the status bar options by tapping lower left corner, as well as setting them in Aa / More / "Reading Progress" settings.

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Yesterday, 11:34 PM	#31
B00kReader Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2026 Device: Kindle Scribe Colorsoft	Okay, I finally got the KFX conversion to work by converting to MOBI first and then sent the books over with the plugin and they transferred with covers... but it still isn't recognizing collections? If I set it to view collections on the Kindle, it says I don't have any collections ��. If Kobo had a color reader this size I'd definitely be returning this and getting that instead. Had a few people tell me that Kindle was just as good as Kobo about treating books that you add to it as equal to purchased from Amazon books and that is clearly not the case.

Today, 12:03 AM	#32
B00kReader Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2026 Device: Kindle Scribe Colorsoft	Ok one last thing (well a few things) - now that it is KFX/PDOC the stylus menu shows up on the left because now Incan mark in the book... but I don't want to mark in this book - can the be turned off somehow or am I stuck with that icon floating on the side of the book now? It also changed the page number in the bottom left to be "Loc". Is that a consequence of it being a PDOC or is there some way to get it to display page number again instead of Loc? And finally, can it show what chapter I'm on somewhere like my Kobo does or is that not a thing on Kindle? I can't seem to find any of these in settings so I'm guessing I'm SOL. Thanks again for any help!

Today, 01:06 PM	#33
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,253 Karma: 28183005 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPad Mini, Kindle Colorsoft, Kindle Scribe Colorsoft	There is a Hide Writing Toolbar option in the menu. There's a way to generate and add page numbers, but that's all I know about it. Chapter titles will not display in status area when you are reading, but only when you have reading options/page preview active. You can cycle among the status bar options by tapping lower left corner, as well as setting them in Aa / More / "Reading Progress" settings.