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Old 10-14-2024, 01:13 PM   #661
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I now use KOReader exclusively on my Paperwhite so I no longer have to put up with having my ebooks deleted when connecting to WiFi. I wasn't trying to pull a fast one on Amazon by using Calibre. Most of my books were Amazon purchased AZW3 files. Downloaded and transferred via USB as permitted by Amazon. I used Calibre simply to make up for the deficiencies in Kindle firmware. To rectify the embarrassingly limited margin and line-height options built into the device. Now, very happy using KOReader on my Paperwhite and having options with my Kobo.
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Old 10-14-2024, 01:43 PM   #662
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The problem is, when you convert something to AZW3, Calibre sets the EBOK tag automatically and there's no way around it.
That seems heavy handed on calibre's part.

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Yes, but you'd have to do it one by one; can't edit them in bulk.

The request has been made, Kovid replied that you should convert to dual MOBI (both old MOBI and AZW3) to change the cdetype, but this would take twice the disk space for the format I don't need (old mobi), so not really feasible either.
That's disappointing. It may be a reasonable default but it should be possible to change regardless of whether amazon ever fixes their bug.

I disagree that the workaround isn't feasible but I can see how many would find it completely unacceptable.
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Old 10-14-2024, 04:04 PM   #663
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They probably don't keep track of things like requests from the web account to remove a book from the somnolent (they think) device, so a request to delete just fails silently. When the supposedly retired Kindle comes back into service they don't check removal requests, they just match up to the status of each Amazon book on the web list.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that it does not match reality.

If I "Download & Transfer via USB", then I have to pick a particular Kindle. The web database then shows that book as being "on" that Kindle, even though it isn't yet.

The problem is that people have reported that books purchased from Amazon that have been copied via USB to their Kindle have been deleted when WiFi gets turned back on after it was off for a long time. If Amazon was just syncing up the Kindle contents to their server database, this would not happen.
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Old 10-14-2024, 04:09 PM   #664
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Can't you edit the AZW3 file?

Make a request for calibre/plugin to be changed?
One solution is to output KFX. That plugin gives you a choice of "book" (the default) or "personal document".
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Old 10-14-2024, 04:12 PM   #665
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One solution is to output KFX. That plugin gives you a choice of "book" (the default) or "personal document".
Unfortunately KFX doesn't work with the FONT_RAMP hack, which was essential for me when I used Kindles. I couldn't find a suitable font size with default sizes, but then I'm very fussy about such things.
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Old 10-14-2024, 04:16 PM   #666
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The problem is that people have reported that books purchased from Amazon that have been copied via USB to their Kindle have been deleted when WiFi gets turned back on after it was off for a long time. If Amazon was just syncing up the Kindle contents to their server database, this would not happen.
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that.

Yeah, it's very strange why those books are deleted. What's the logic in this?
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Old 10-14-2024, 05:32 PM   #667
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... The problem is that people have reported that books purchased from Amazon that have been copied via USB to their Kindle have been deleted when WiFi gets turned back on after it was off for a long time. If Amazon was just syncing up the Kindle contents to their server database, this would not happen.
I thought it was only books that were not purchased from Amazon but made to look like they were (EBOK) or they were purchased from Amazon, stripped of DRM, edited, made to look like an original Amazon purchase (EBOK) then sideloaded via USB.
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Old 10-14-2024, 06:10 PM   #668
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I recall no reports of undiddled, side-loaded Amazon purchases being deleted with the wifi-turned-on-after-being-off-for-a-long-time bug.
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I recall no reports of undiddled, side-loaded Amazon purchases being deleted with the wifi-turned-on-after-being-off-for-a-long-time bug.
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Yes, but you'd have to do it one by one; can't edit them in bulk.

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Don't you already edit your books?
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You don't own the content of your device, Amazon does.
If I sideload a PD book to an Amazon device, you are claiming that Amazon now owns that content. Exactly what legal doctrine are you basing that claim on?

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Don't you already edit your books?
Yes, but AFAIK you need a mobi metadata editor to edit the PDOC/EBOK tags. They don't show up in the calibre editor. So I'd have to edit my books twice.
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https://github.com/SolaProject/mobi_header

Looks like a solid basis for a Kindlebook metadata editor plugin that could run on multiple books if someone was so inclined.

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I recall no reports of undiddled, side-loaded Amazon purchases being deleted with the wifi-turned-on-after-being-off-for-a-long-time bug.
I only remove DRM in the first place because Amazon's transcriptions are frequently terrible. For example, they changed every every "torc" into "tore" in a book literally called "The Golden Torc". Another turned every "cl" into a "d". If they had a human being checking the output, I wouldn't need to.
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I only remove DRM in the first place because Amazon's transcriptions are frequently terrible.
That's one reason to remove DRM. And there are probably 10,000 other reasons to remove DRM that you haven't thought about yet.
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