04-15-2017, 03:58 PM | #1 |
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Loss of link between Calibre and Kindle
I haven't used Calibre in about a month ... sudden spate of library books ... and went to catch up today. Unsurprisingly, there was a prompt for an update, so I did that first. I am now on 2.83 and was on 2.78. For reasons to do with DRM, while books automatically download to my Paperwhite, to add them to Calibre I download them from Amazon. This means that, after I have added, updated metadata, and done a conversion to epub, I have to go into the Paperwhite from Calibre and match the Kindle book to the one in Calibre. Today when I went to do this after the first addition I noticed that only a small percentage of books in the Kindle showed as being in the Library. Back in the Library, I could see that only a small percentage of books showed as being on the device. The include the two most recent additions prior to the one today, put prior to that, there are large gaps.
I suppose I could go one by one matching the books back to the library ... but I have 687 books on the Paperwhite, so that would be *real* tedious. Any hope here? |
04-16-2017, 12:23 AM | #2 |
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If you have all the books in yoour calibre library simply delete them off the kindle and resend them with calibre.
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04-19-2017, 08:11 PM | #3 |
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I have also been having problems transferring books from calibre to Kindle paperwhite lately. I do not use wireless on my paperwhite, so I transfer everything manually. I am reading library books that come in EPUB, so I open them with Adobe Digital editionsand then transfer them to my caliber library, convert them to azw3 and manually drag-and-drop them onto my Kindle. Recently, some of the books just do not show up. They appear when I open up the drive for Kindle in Internet explorer, but not on the machine, even if I search for them. Any suggestions? Thanks so much. I love calibre and I do not want to give it up.
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04-19-2017, 10:25 PM | #4 |
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If you are in one USA, just get the Kindle versions from Overdrive. Problem solved.
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04-21-2017, 09:46 AM | #5 |
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I have tried that, but the ones that are not showing up still don't show up.
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04-21-2017, 10:00 AM | #6 |
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The problem with resending everything to the Kindle is that there are a bunch of books in Calibre which are not on the Kindle ... already read, not going to read, etc. I might be able to sort the right books into a block and send only those, but it seems awfully crude and will almost certainly lose the when received date, which is important for locating recently acquired books.
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04-21-2017, 10:37 AM | #7 |
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Well if you dont want to resend the only other thing you can try is deleting the metadata.calibre file from your Kindle, then calibre will rescan the full kindle and try to match book s automatically based on title and author.
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04-28-2017, 08:43 AM | #9 |
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Thank you. How do I check that on the kindle?
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04-28-2017, 11:14 PM | #10 |
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05-05-2017, 09:51 AM | #11 |
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It does not. It says "no results"
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