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If you don't like what calibre (or want to see what it does), turn on debug mode and look at the intermediate HTML files that will be left around. Then you can edit and build mobi from those. In any case, no automatic conversion should be considered 'commercial grade', though evidently a lot of big publishers just have their epub files run through kindlegen. The most obvious artifact of this is where chapter navigation only hits the top level, e.g. 'Part 1, Part 2, etc.' rather than all the chapters in between. You might also want to look for a python script named 'kindlestrip'. It will significantly reduce the file sizes of mobi generated by kindlegen/kindle previewer, by removing the source files archived in the file. Or just send them to Amazon to put in your PD library, they strip the source archive (if there's one in there) before storing it. Someday I hope amazon will add .epub to the formats that the conversion service handles. Last edited by tomsem; 10-19-2011 at 12:07 AM. |
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10-19-2011, 11:11 AM | #108 | |
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About the problem, maybe it is gone, maybe it isn't (and the threads about it maybe long buried), I have my routine now and am sure that kindlegen always does what I want (and that doesn't mean I don't like calibre, it's awesome). I'm not using python so I'm not using kindlestrip but it's ok, the file size really isn't that important to me. And maybe "Personal Documents" helps now anyway keep the file sizes small. And yeah I hope too that someday we'll be able to convert epub to Kindle without much of a hassle via email... |
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11-17-2011, 11:16 PM | #109 |
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Did they change how this worked? I got my fire today and went to personal documents and it showed an email address different from the one I have set.
Did they decided to go back to a unique email address for each device? Also, my personal document storage was empty. I thought I had left some stuff in there when I was playing with it before. But, maybe not. BOb |
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You can however from your MYK page send stuff from your Pdoc cloud to the Fire other then that it works like all the other Kindles did before they gave us the Pdoc cloud. |
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Thanks very strange why would they do that... OH, and I was wrong, the books I had there were still there... but it is showing I am using 0.0 space... perhaps the 6 books I have there are too small to register as using any space atm. BOb |
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Still, seems like they missed the boat here that you can't access pd's from the Fire. Although, you can't from the Cloud Reader or K2PC or K4MAC as far as I know either... so perhaps there is a similar reason. BOb |
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I think it only applies to Kindles purchased after Sept 28th. Both my Kindles share an address and if I changed it changes both of them. The Fire is the only that doesn't do that.
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Here is the current help: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...00728550#pdocs Each of your Kindle devices is associated with a unique device-specific Send-to-Kindle e-mail address upon registration. Documents sent to this e-mail address are delivered to that specific device. You can view and change the Send-to-Kindle e-mail address associated with your Kindle device in the “Send-to-Kindle E-mail Settings” table. To change the Send-to-Kindle e-mail address associated with your Kindle, click on “Edit” next to the e-mail address. Enter your preferred e-mail address and click “Update” to complete the change. --- I am 100% sure that is a change. You even state in message 26 that after Sept 28th all kindles will have a single email address as do I in a previous message. I tried to look in the Internet Archive for previous pages, but they don't have them. BOb |
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11-18-2011, 05:17 PM | #119 | |
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I guess sending feedback does work! I sent them a long email about this when I got my K4. Last edited by Blossom; 11-18-2011 at 05:20 PM. |
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Well, I finally emailed all my non amazon purchased ebooks to my Kindle account and they are in my personal document storage. Yeah!
I don't have a lot, 63 ebooks that I have purchased from places other than Amazon. I also didn't add any public domain stuff because I didn't want it to take up my 5GB allocation, I can just "buy" them from Amazon if I want to re-read. They will be on my account but won't count toward my 5GB space. I do hope they integrate this with Cloud drive so you can add storage space if you need it. However, 5GB is a lot of space for ebooks and I do buy probably 99% of my ebooks from Amazon which are stored for free. But, I'm more likely to buy more cloud drive storage if it allows for more kindle personal doc storage. A bonus is I can remove these ebooks from Calibre and reclaim back that space. Granted though it is only about 100MB of space. BOb |
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