The Technology Vent and Rant Thread

[madelonw]

I'm beginning to despise Amazon all over again.

I am in the process of downloading my extensive Kindle library (a bit OCD about my books, don't trust Amazon to not f*** up) again! Anyway, I've gone through a couple of steps to get where I am in the process. I use the latest version of Kindle for Windows which I have made my default device. Next, I use Epubor to convert the downloaded book to EPUB. I add those EPUBs to Calibre. (That's the short version.) After trying to do the downloads directly in Kindle for Windows (search, mark, download), I thought a better way to do it was to use Content and Devices (search, send to device) which seemed to be working. Now, I find that Select All and Deliver to aren't exactly working (I look for "in 1 Device to confirm that books were delivered. And, for the past couple of days, I am getting a message when I try to select a page of books and try to send them to my default device: Request did not process. Please try performing the operation again. Where the bulk download is giving me grief, I can download the books one at a time or in small (3 book) batches.

I don't know where to post this (other than here). Any advice? I'd like to know why this is happening.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by madelonw

I'm beginning to despise Amazon all over again.

I am in the process of downloading my extensive Kindle library (a bit OCD about my books, don't trust Amazon to not f*** up) again! Anyway, I've gone through a couple of steps to get where I am in the process. I use the latest version of Kindle for Windows which I have made my default device. Next, I use Epubor to convert the downloaded book to EPUB. I add those EPUBs to Calibre. (That's the short version.) After trying to do the downloads directly in Kindle for Windows (search, mark, download), I thought a better way to do it was to use Content and Devices (search, send to device) which seemed to be working. Now, I find that Select All and Deliver to aren't exactly working (I look for "in 1 Device to confirm that books were delivered. And, for the past couple of days, I am getting a message when I try to select a page of books and try to send them to my default device: Request did not process. Please try performing the operation again. Where the bulk download is giving me grief, I can download the books one at a time or in small (3 book) batches.

I don't know where to post this (other than here). Any advice? I'd like to know why this is happening.

2009 join date and you're only doing this now? You unfortunately missed the boat on doing things the easy way: it's a very complicated endeavor now, and only gets moreso as time goes on.

Most of us read the tea-leaves when Amazon announced it was removing the D&T option and got out libraries out swiftly.

[DNSB]

Spent a chunk of yesterday thinking nasty thoughts about computer technology. For reasons that some people seem to be sufficient, British Columbia went to a permanent UTC-7 time zone. When the switch to standard time happened yesterday, it was great for the dumb clocks since nothing needed to be done. My iPhone switched and when I checked, in date & time, there was a note about rebooting to install new time zone information. After the reboot all was happy. Then I got to the Android devices. My Lenovo Smart Clock Essentials (a speaker/clock combo) and my Lenovo M8H8 tablet are now residents of Dawson City, YT which is MST (UTC-7, no DST). Perfect except the temperature display is now for a city ~2000km north of my location. It's just a bit nippier there. The Windows computers just needed the time zone set to Pacific Time and my Kobo ereaders needed the UTC offset updated.

Google will have updated timezone information for my older devices some day soon.

The only consolation is that I should not need to do this again for a few years.

[Terisa de morgan]

You can try to go from Spain (with DST) to Brazil (with no DST) and try to do your phone to behave (note: I left Brazil before being able to do it)