10-19-2012, 10:31 PM | #1 |
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Odd Issue Adding Books to My Fire
Hoping someone can help...there are a few eBooks I have that I had Calibre send to my Kindle via USB. Trouble is, the files REFUSE to show up in the "book" section, they only show up in the "Documents" section.
Even when I tried to manually copy the files to the "Books" folder in Windows Explorer, they still only show up in the "Documents" section. Any advice? |
10-20-2012, 01:52 AM | #2 | |
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10-21-2012, 12:38 AM | #3 | |
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Also if I were to store calibre books to dropbox how do you load the books when calibre makes a .jpeg file and the book and metadata.opf (whatever that is). How do you do it? Also do you mark old or new version for conversion to Mobi? Or both? Thanks Last edited by new; 10-21-2012 at 12:43 AM. Reason: remembered name |
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I save to disk from Calibre my Kindle books on my dropbox. I then use the Dropbox app to put them on the Kindle Fire. I'm not sure I understand the last question. |
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10-21-2012, 01:04 AM | #5 |
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Thanks, Blossom! That worked perfectly! I was so confused there for a while!
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10-21-2012, 11:24 AM | #6 | |
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As I have an older kindle (and a Fire) and don't really care about special formating in my books, I convert my books to the 'old' format. I hope this helps. If something is inaccurate in what I said, I'd love someone to clarify. |
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Not to mention the new format has that line bug. I got a book the other day downloaded it to the Kindle and the line spacing was like 3 lines on even the smallest settings. I really hope Amazon fixes this someday. |
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Now I just decided not to use emailing to Amazon, or dropbox, I have too large of a library and deleted them all. Now I plugged in my Kindle DX (USB) to Calibre and it shows transfer to device and all went well. Now I plugged in the Kindle Fire HD and nothing!!! I have unplugged and plugged, and changed my preferences to Kindle Fire HD. My Kindle Fire HD does not show up on Calibre. I did download the Android File Transfer for Mac, and I was so frustrated. It shows numbers for books, so I can't understand what to transfer. YUCK. Help please. Last edited by new; 10-21-2012 at 05:34 PM. |
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