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Old 04-20-2015, 06:10 AM   #1
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Kindle: AZW3 instead of MOBI?
I have so far used MOBI on my Kindle, although I keep all my books as EPUBs in Calibre. When I use "Send to Device", Calibre asks me if I want to auto-convert and when I say "yes", it converts them to MOBI and uploads them.

I've now discovered that AZW3 seems to be a much better format (MOBI shows an inline TOC as a bulleted list, even though it is without bullets in the EPUB, justified text is displayed with a ragged margin if the Kindle thinks the spaces between words would be too wide, and it doesn't break lines on hyphens or dashes, whereas AZW£ seems to break at least on hyphens).

I can convert manually from EPUB to AZW3 (I want to keep my "master" copies as EPUBs), but I can't find a way to get Calibre to auto-convert to AZW3 instead of MOBI. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
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I have so far used MOBI on my Kindle, although I keep all my books as EPUBs in Calibre. When I use "Send to Device", Calibre asks me if I want to auto-convert and when I say "yes", it converts them to MOBI and uploads them.

I've now discovered that AZW3 seems to be a much better format (MOBI shows an inline TOC as a bulleted list, even though it is without bullets in the EPUB, justified text is displayed with a ragged margin if the Kindle thinks the spaces between words would be too wide, and it doesn't break lines on hyphens or dashes, whereas AZW£ seems to break at least on hyphens).

I can convert manually from EPUB to AZW3 (I want to keep my "master" copies as EPUBs), but I can't find a way to get Calibre to auto-convert to AZW3 instead of MOBI. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
In the device driver(configur this device), move AZW3 above Mobi in the list. IMHO still leave both ticked
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Old 04-20-2015, 09:51 AM   #4
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In the device driver(configur this device), move AZW3 above Mobi in the list. IMHO still leave both ticked
Sorry for my ignorance, but where do I find this?

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Preferences->Behavior->Output format = AZW3
This is currently set to EPUB, since that's what I want "convert book" to default to when working inside Calibre... but for converting for upload to the Kindle, this is not appropriate, of course. I just want to auto-convert to AZW3 rather than to MOBI by default.
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Don't worry, found it after a bit more rooting around: Prefs > Plugins > Device interface plugins > Kindle, then Customize Plugin.
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Don't worry, found it after a bit more rooting around: Prefs > Plugins > Device interface plugins > Kindle, then Customize Plugin.
It is also right click available on the STD icon (device connected)
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It is also right click available on the STD icon (device connected)
Duh -- should have thought of connecting the device...
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Duh -- should have thought of connecting the device...
It was not always there.

Just been there quite a while
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