07-31-2024, 07:31 PM | #481 |
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happened to my mom
A few days ago, maybe a week. Lost all sideloaded books. This is apparently still happening :/
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07-31-2024, 07:57 PM | #482 |
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It's time to dump the Kindle and move to Kobo where Amazon has no access to any eBooks on a Kobo.
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08-02-2024, 03:47 AM | #483 |
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I'm actually glad that mine died. I have replaced it with a Pocketbook and I couldn't be happier.
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08-02-2024, 07:32 AM | #484 |
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I feel concerned that Amazon is catching up to people downloading free ebooks and is purposefully making it harder for us to have nice things. Like I am trying to download books from calibre into my Kindle and it's not working.
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08-02-2024, 09:41 AM | #485 |
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Are you trying to load epubs, by any chance? Those won't work.
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08-02-2024, 07:09 PM | #486 |
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08-04-2024, 05:26 AM | #487 |
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Maybe it's time to actively tell people to only sideload their books with the PDOC tag set? (KF8 and CDETYPE set to PDOC?).
I mean Calibre setting the EBOK tag by default it's still in the end, a trick done to the device into believing a book is actually a purchase, which I believe it's something Amazon has started to not like. Sending the books as PDOC might be a trick too, but as jhowell reported, their PDOC books weren't removed. If PDOC books do still get removed, then we can finally conclude the bug/whatever-hidden-feature-amazon-added affects all manually sidelaoded books regardless of metadata and advice to stop sideloading. Last edited by hondabf; 08-04-2024 at 03:22 PM. |
08-11-2024, 12:14 AM | #488 |
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After a few months of testing, my finding is just do not turn off wifi for a prolonged period of time. My sideloaded books are still intact after few months with wifi on. Switching on the wifi from a prolonged period from airplane mode will somehow nuke all the sideloaded books.
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08-11-2024, 07:48 AM | #489 | |
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08-20-2024, 03:02 AM | #490 |
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I just fell for this bug. I purchased a book on Amazon and wanted it on my kindle (obviously) and turned off airplane mode and all of a sudden the device freezes up as if it's was doing stuff in the background. I thought nothing off it until the device went back to normal but I realized that all my books that I had sideloaded had just vanished. I check the kindle files on my computer (USB) and my suspicious were right, Amazon had just wiped my entire library.
So sad that Amazon is (obviously) ignoring this issue. I had over 300 bookmarks and notes saved. Good thing I have a good practice of backing up things and I had exported all my kindle notes to my computer. Now I just have to backup the entire kindle device and never take the damn thing off Airplane mode again. |
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08-20-2024, 10:14 AM | #492 |
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08-20-2024, 10:37 AM | #493 |
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I'm with Wolf on this. I'd refuse to use/buy a kindle or buy books from Amazon until they fix this bug.
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08-20-2024, 12:12 PM | #494 |
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08-20-2024, 12:22 PM | #495 |
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It is, of course, your choice. I don't find the battery drain excessive when I leave the wi-fi on and I can't blame Amazon for not fixing a problem that only arises if you don't connect to the Amazon server frequently enough: your choice, but you also choose the expected consequences.
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