How to change titles and appearance on Kindle

[Leep]

Put them back on your Kindle with the usb cord. Make sure that you remove the existing same ebook from your Kindle first. You can do that through Calibre or by plugging in your Kindle and opening the "documents" folder on your Kindle (Mine shows up as F:\ drive) and deleting the book(s) that you have fixed and want to reload. Or you can do it from the main page in your Kindle by running up the scroll to the book name and pressing the "back" (left arrow) button.

Next - have fun reading them!

[KinN00b]

Originally Posted by Leep

Put them back on your Kindle with the usb cord. Make sure that you remove the existing same ebook from your Kindle first. You can do that through Calibre or by plugging in your Kindle and opening the "documents" folder on your Kindle (Mine shows up as F:\ drive) and deleting the book(s) that you have fixed and want to reload. Or you can do it from the main page in your Kindle by running up the scroll to the book name and pressing the "back" (left arrow) button.

Next - have fun reading them!

Lemme just repeat so I understand...
Leave them in PRC format and just copy/paste into the file? I don't think that will work with the K2... Doesn't the K2 have to be .azw format only? I'll try tonight when I get home, but I'm fairly certain it HAS to be .azw for Kindle 2...

[sirbruce]

No, Kindle can use PRC or MOBI files natively.

HOWEVER, it's my understanding that Kindle will not update the metadata on PRC files. Even on send-to-device. So you need to convert to MOBI, and *then* after you've editing the metadata the way you like, send-to-device the MOBI file.

[KinN00b]

OK, thank you! I followed the process yall provided and it worked like a charm! A little lengthy for 300 books, but WORTH it! Thank you!!!!!

[krazy4katz]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

Okay, I downloaded Herland and tried to make your changes. I'm using Vista, so I hope the steps are similar.

1. I imported the book into Calibre and made my meta data changes (herland2). As you can see, I made sure that both "Author" and "Author Sort" were entered as "lastname, firstname". I clicked okay.

2. Once back in the main window, I right clicked on the book title and chose "Convert E-books". Once I was in the convert window, I clicked the "page set-up" icon and for the "Destination Profile", I chose "Kindle" (herland6). I clicked okay and was sent back to the main window.

3. I watch the hour glass do it's dance for a few moments. I then went to my Calibre ebook directory and transferred the resulting .mobi file to my Kindle "documents" folder (herland7 - before and after). The title was changed and I was able to sort by author and have the book show up with the "G" authors.

Thanks, daffy. Sorry it took me so long to respond. I tried again and still could not sort by author. Also, I noticed that my book was no longer left justified and I could not change it. Calibre was acting strangely. I could swear half the commands were in Arabic. I must have been having a font problem also. I might wait for a few upgrades and try again. I do appreciate your help.

k4k

[sirbruce]

The Arabic bug on MacOS has been fixed.

[buschkim]

can anyone help with increasing print size on my kindle. some books have tiny print and illustrations which can't be seen on the largest font size

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by buschkim

can anyone help with increasing print size on my kindle. some books have tiny print and illustrations which can't be seen on the largest font size

Have you tried to zoom the images (the tiny print may be an image as well)?

[Skydog]

Hello, I've been a lurker previously and this is my first post. First, I would like to thank all the generous people here for offering their expertise to so many.

I've been reading this thread and others with great interest and still cannot successfully convert .prc to Mobi without getting a lenthy error log. The file in question is non-DRM'd, .prc format and I've corrected the author name in order for it to appear on my Kindle (I've yet to find out!). When I select convert 'individually', the hourglass does its thing, but this is the error I am receiving (below). (Calibre v.0.5.1)

Can anyone help? I am at my wit's end! :
Thank you very much.

Job: **Convert book: Truman**
**tuple**: ('IOError', u'decoding error when reading image file')
**Traceback**:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "parallel.py", line 958, in worker
File "parallel.py", line 916, in work
File "calibre\ebooks\mobi\from_any.pyo", line 51, in any2mobi
File "calibre\ebooks\epub\from_any.pyo", line 167, in any2epub
File "calibre\ebooks\epub\from_any.pyo", line 63, in mobi2opf
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\mobi\read er.py", line 197, in extract_content
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\mobi\read er.py", line 540, in extract_images
File "PIL\Image.pyo", line 653, in convert
File "PIL\ImageFile.pyo", line 207, in load
IOError: decoding error when reading image file

**Log**:
Exploding MOBI file: c:\docume~1\pt\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.5.1_oqz4u7. prc
('IOError', u'decoding error when reading image file')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "parallel.py", line 958, in worker
File "parallel.py", line 916, in work
File "calibre\ebooks\mobi\from_any.pyo", line 51, in any2mobi
File "calibre\ebooks\epub\from_any.pyo", line 167, in any2epub
File "calibre\ebooks\epub\from_any.pyo", line 63, in mobi2opf
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\mobi\read er.py", line 197, in extract_content
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\mobi\read er.py", line 540, in extract_images
File "PIL\Image.pyo", line 653, in convert
File "PIL\ImageFile.pyo", line 207, in load
IOError: decoding error when reading image file

[sirbruce]

First, try downloading and installing 0.5.3 and see if that fixes it.

Second, if not, create an account on the calibre web page, log in, file a new ticket, and attach a copy of the prc file.

[daffy4u]

Hi Skydog, welcome to MobileRead!

You don't have to convert a DRM free .prc file to use on your Kindle. The Kindle will read it natively just make sure to place it in the "documents" folder on your Kindle.

[sirbruce]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

You don't have to convert a DRM free .prc file to use on your Kindle.

In this case, he does, because he's changing the author name.

[Skydog]

Sirbruce,

Thank you for the suggestion - I'll update to the most current version and try again.

daffy4u,

Thank you also - I'm well aware that the file does not require conversion to be read. As I mentioned, I need to edit the metadata which reportedly works best if subsequently converted to .mobi before porting to the Kindle. Editing a .prc seems to be ineffective.

(and thank you for the welcome )

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by sirbruce

In this case, he does, because he's changing the author name.

Gotcha, you're right for Calibre. It can be done without converting the file with either MobiPocket Creator or Mobi2Mobi (though it's good to learn all the ins and outs of Calibre).

[Skydog]

Originally Posted by sirbruce

In this case, he does, because he's changing the author name.

Actually, I'm a "she," not that it matters.