My Kindle Content folders show old books with today's date

LTR88 · 09-19-2019, 12:05 PM

I've never posted here before so thank you for your forbearance. I use Calibre but am not very savvy with it. Yesterday I went to copy my five purchased books from Ammy into Calibre and instead of five folders with the new book filess, the My Kindle Content folder showed 64 folders with yesterday's date. I opened up each folder and all of the folders except for the five new purchases were older purchases, going back to February. Just random book purchases with yesterday's date.

This happens almost every time I buy books but never to this scale. Am I doing something wrong or does anyone know why this is happening? I purchase most of my books from Ammy (some of the authors I read sell there exclusively) and have the books downloaded to my PC.

If any of you have ideas or suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!

Bookstooge · 09-19-2019, 06:49 PM

Sounds like you're downloading/updating the older books every time you download a new book.

You might want to ask a mod move this to the amazon forum where you can get some specific help from people who know the amazon ropes.

theducks · 09-19-2019, 08:10 PM

You should only add the New book by dragging it (from KindleContent) to Calibre NOT by pointing Calibre to the Kindle content folder.

I view the Book in Kindle for PC, Then EXIT that ap. I then sort Kindle content folder by last modified date and NOTE the crazy file name. The I find the real book (AZW,Mobi...:Kindle Content type) that has the same base name

Find Duplicates Plugin might help you clean up the spillover.

Preferences:Adding Books: Adding Actions (tab): Set Automerge to your choice might help avoid dups.

09-19-2019, 12:05 PM	#1
LTR88 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2019 Device: ipad mini	My Kindle Content folders show old books with today's date I've never posted here before so thank you for your forbearance. I use Calibre but am not very savvy with it. Yesterday I went to copy my five purchased books from Ammy into Calibre and instead of five folders with the new book filess, the My Kindle Content folder showed 64 folders with yesterday's date. I opened up each folder and all of the folders except for the five new purchases were older purchases, going back to February. Just random book purchases with yesterday's date. This happens almost every time I buy books but never to this scale. Am I doing something wrong or does anyone know why this is happening? I purchase most of my books from Ammy (some of the authors I read sell there exclusively) and have the books downloaded to my PC. If any of you have ideas or suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!

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09-19-2019, 06:49 PM	#2
Bookstooge Guru Posts: 760 Karma: 2090886 Join Date: May 2019 Device: Kindle Oasis 1st Gen	Sounds like you're downloading/updating the older books every time you download a new book. You might want to ask a mod move this to the amazon forum where you can get some specific help from people who know the amazon ropes.

09-19-2019, 08:10 PM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,837 Karma: 54837878 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	You should only add the New book by dragging it (from KindleContent) to Calibre NOT by pointing Calibre to the Kindle content folder. I view the Book in Kindle for PC, Then EXIT that ap. I then sort Kindle content folder by last modified date and NOTE the crazy file name. The I find the real book (AZW,Mobi...:Kindle Content type) that has the same base name Find Duplicates Plugin might help you clean up the spillover. Preferences:Adding Books: Adding Actions (tab): Set Automerge to your choice might help avoid dups.

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