11-04-2014, 01:56 PM | #1 |
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Collections weirdness
So I know that non-Amazon titles aren't supposed to be synced to the cloud collections. No problem.
But here is the weirdness -- I have some non-Amazon books that were in collections, then I took them out (I take books out of collections when I'm reading them), but every time I turn on wifi and sync with Amazon -- they end up back in the old collection. Despite the nag that changes to this collection will not be synced. Something is syncing somehow. I've tried forcing a "sync and look for new" when I first connect, the books don't move, but a few minutes later -- boom, back in old collections. Anyone know of a way to fix this? There really, really has to be a better way of managing collections overall that doesn't require a jailbreak. |
11-05-2014, 11:18 AM | #2 |
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Are you using calibre? That may have something to do with it. I think there's an option that allows side-loaded books to sync between devices and you might need to turn that off for collections to work better. But I don't know the details, I always use send to kindle instead of side loading.
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11-05-2014, 01:38 PM | #3 |
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I hate to suggest that you change your way of working .... but can you create a CURRENT collection (or some such) and will your current book "stay" in that collection? Or can't you move these older books at all, any more?
Separate question: If these books had been mailed to amazon to put on your kindle -- is that how come they are now in a collection? Or perhaps that's why these older books ARE in a collection? Not that that helps, but it might be interesting to understand WHY this is happening..... |
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Do you know where in prefs this sync option is located? |
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11-06-2014, 02:04 PM | #6 |
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Is there another kindle on your account, that may have these books listed in that original collection? I've just side-loaded some Baen books, and they seem to be staying in the collections that I assigned them to 36 hours ago.
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That was going to be my question. Either they are being updated from another device or your changes are not updated on their server yet. |
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Well, it *oughtn't* to matter, but you could try moving those books into the desired collection from the PW2 instead. That doesn't solve the "why" but it might cure the problem. Maybe.
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11-07-2014, 05:01 PM | #11 |
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Ok. Will give it a shot.
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