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Books not showing on latest Kindle
I've tried to do a search for a solution to the problem, but am not coming up with anything. No doubt, I'm not using the right terms to bring it up.
Anyway. Calibre is showing that my Kindle 4 has 4 more books on it than the Kindle shows. I've identified three of them--all by the same author. Calibre says they're on the device, but the Kindle doesn't show that they're there. I've tried deleting the books from the device and Calibre and downloading them again from Kindle for Mac, but the problem recurs. Interestingly, when you transfer them to the Kindle again and unplug from the computer, you can see the titles briefly on the Kindle, but after a few seconds, they go away. Not a huge problem, because they transfer to my Kobo with no problem and I can read them there, but the problem bugs me. Any ideas? Jim |
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What format are the missing books?. If they work on kobo, that suggests epub or kepub which will not work on kindle?
DRM locking them to Kindle for Mac is another possible cause Can you open them in calibre, to prove DRM is gone ? |
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Try to convert them to azw3 again and transfer them to your Kindle from Calibre after conversion. Calibre conversion sometimes removes such issues.
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Are they stuck indexing? IIRC that's prevented titles from showing for folks on occasion.
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Do you know what is set for the ASIN of those books? Strange things can happen if multiple books on a device have the same ASIN.
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Try MOBI format
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These books all arrived from Kindle for Mac in azw3 format. Just for yucks, I downloaded one of the books via USB for my original Kindle and it came in Mobi format, which I converted to azw3. So, if what you're suggesting is that there is something wrong with the books' azw3 formatting, this book should have shown up on the Kindle, and it didn't.
Too many things I don't know about Calibre and its interaction with the reader for me to solve this puzzle. As I said initially, the books download to my Kobo just fine and I can read them there and hopefully I won't have the same problem with other books. Jim |
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