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#466 |
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What would concern me most, if I allowed my Kindle to go online, is this scenario:
I do not know if the item that worries me - item 5 above - actually happens or not. Because I never allow my Kindle to go online for Amazon to get the chance. I do not know what parts of an eBook that DeDRM touches and if Amazon is going to get into a tizzy if they discover such modification and therefore decide to delete my book (now, or in the future after they update Kindle firmware or their cloud servers). I'm not about to test this myself either, because Amazon will also try to update the firmware on my Kindle, and I don't want that either. That firmware update could be the one that automatically deletes DeDRM'ed books! I doubt I am the only one on these forums that would be annoyed if DeDRM'ed eBooks were removed by Amazon. Again, I don't know that this will happen, because I'm not going to test it. I wouldn't mind reloading books that went missing during a test because I only keep maybe a dozen on the Kindle at a time. But I don't want any firmware update. Amazon could change the functionality of my Kindle in ways that I do not like. Newer is not always better. |
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Anyway, it seems pretty unlikely I'll ever buy a Kindle again, as Amazon got rid of the Oasis, their only buttoned device, and doesn't seem to be planning to replace it. They might decide to release a color Kindle at some point, but unless they dramatically improve the current color tech, I won't be interested in that, especially if it has no buttons. |
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#468 |
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I cannot stand KFX. It prevents using the font metrics to control the line height. So what KFX is doing is forcing a line height that I find too large.
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#469 |
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The azw3 on Kindle looks closer to Adobe rendered (and most decent apps that respect CSS) epub than KFX does. KFX two mainn features seems to be DRM even when publisher wants DRM free (though any Kindle will work) and ability to start reading while the ebook is downloading (negligable value unless you are on 28 kbps dialup or 2002 era GSM), apart from alleged "advanced typesetting". Both are often from the same uploaded to KDP epub except for large publishers.
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the rook, bossing Never.
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The PW3 was quite good when I got it.
It's on 5.16.2 now and the GUI is terrible compared to the past and the "deletion" of content seems random, as is availability of "Publisher" fonts etc. I just tried a Sync again after some months. So far the sideloaded content is still there (inc covers), but the Amazon content has no covers? Last edited by Quoth; 05-08-2024 at 06:54 AM. |
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#474 |
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Mobi Metadata Editor Works for MOBI files and also azw3/KF8. Last edited by shamanNS; 06-29-2024 at 06:42 AM. |
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Thanks. So I assume the problem is still not fixed? It just happened to me a second time, and that's how I found my way to this thread. I can confirm that only books that are marked as EBOK are deleted.
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You edited QualityCheck plugin to set PDOC instead of EBOK?
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Interesting just downloaded a book from Amazon and now my side loaded books are gone. Connected the Kindle to the PC and yes they were deleted for some reason.
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