Troubleshooting No page numbers on mailing to Kindle

howyoudoin · 10-23-2011, 09:49 PM

Hi all

I've tried mailing a couple of books recently from my Calibre library to the kindle. The books don't have the page numbers when I open them up on the kindle. They do have page numbers when I transfer them to the kindle via usb, from calibre.

I'm guessing that the opf file generated by calibre contains the page numbers, and since that isn't mailed to the kindle, thats the reason why I don't get the page numbers?

Is there a workaround so I can archive my books on the cloud and also preserve the calibre generated page numbers?

tomsem · 10-24-2011, 12:15 AM

Amazon does not generate page numbers for Personal Documents, as far ask I can tell (none of the formats it accepts for conversion have any way to specify page numbers, except for PDF, and you don't want to go there).

Calibre generates them for you if you side-load the file, but personally I'd rather be without calibre page numbers since they do not relate to page numbers of any print edition, and I don't find 'unreal' page numbers of value. YMMV.

You might be able to import the file to calibre (over USB) after downloading from Amazon, then have calibre 'copy to device', which should get calibre to create an .apnx file with its pseudo page numbers in it, which nevertheless should still sync and backup highlights to your Kindle account etc. Kinda roundabout, might not work, but maybe worth a try.

Or write a plugin for calibre to add apnx files to everything on your kindle that does not already have one...

10-23-2011, 09:49 PM	#1
howyoudoin how YOU doin? Posts: 1,100 Karma: 7371047 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: India Device: Kindle Keyboard, iPad Pro 10.5”, Kobo Aura H2O, Kobo Libra 2	No page numbers on mailing to Kindle Hi all I've tried mailing a couple of books recently from my Calibre library to the kindle. The books don't have the page numbers when I open them up on the kindle. They do have page numbers when I transfer them to the kindle via usb, from calibre. I'm guessing that the opf file generated by calibre contains the page numbers, and since that isn't mailed to the kindle, thats the reason why I don't get the page numbers? Is there a workaround so I can archive my books on the cloud and also preserve the calibre generated page numbers?

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10-24-2011, 12:15 AM	#2
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,905 Karma: 27013865 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Amazon does not generate page numbers for Personal Documents, as far ask I can tell (none of the formats it accepts for conversion have any way to specify page numbers, except for PDF, and you don't want to go there). Calibre generates them for you if you side-load the file, but personally I'd rather be without calibre page numbers since they do not relate to page numbers of any print edition, and I don't find 'unreal' page numbers of value. YMMV. You might be able to import the file to calibre (over USB) after downloading from Amazon, then have calibre 'copy to device', which should get calibre to create an .apnx file with its pseudo page numbers in it, which nevertheless should still sync and backup highlights to your Kindle account etc. Kinda roundabout, might not work, but maybe worth a try. Or write a plugin for calibre to add apnx files to everything on your kindle that does not already have one...

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