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Downloading using K4PC is not the same as using the Download & transfer via USB. The Download & transfer via USB should give a popup which ask what device you want to download for even if you only have one hardware Kindle registered. Even using a eInk Kindle that supports KFX, all I ever see is azw3/KF8 or (rarely) mobi.
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What DSB writes ^^^^^
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Go to a book and each as three "buttons": "Deliver or Remove from Device", "Mark as read" and "More Actions" (a sub menu) More Actions has 8 options. First is Delete and second is "Download & Transfer via USB". It lists registered devices and apps as per DSNB's screen shot. Select any pre 3.4.x FW Kindle and you get mobi/azw, but select KK3 (with last FW) or later except DXG and you will get azw3 if available, but sometimes mobi/azw if there was only mobi upload. You never ever get KFX. If the book or magazine is Fixed Layout or otherwise strange then no eink based kindle can be selected. DRM depends on if the Publisher requested it unlike KFX which always has DRM. Do not use an old PC or K4PC. Just use a "modern enough" browser that supports Javascript (some need Amazon to be whitelisted). This works on Mac, Windows, Linux and Android. Probably on iOS too. This has always worked for me on Windows and Linux. Last edited by Quoth; 11-28-2022 at 06:30 AM. |
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Apparently, I should be more detailed in my replies about what does, and doesn't, or did, and didn't, work. As I said, it's been...IDK, 2-3 years since I last tried this, because I have not had a need to, as I only use it in case of...well, client emergencies, a book formatted by somebody else, somewhere in time, only launched on Amazon, author lost his/her file copies, etc. I'll dig into it and see if I can recall the book, etc.--doubtful, but I'll try--and revert. Hitch |
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Amazon, as you probably know, have stopped offering converted-to-mobi-or-something and now offer epub (for Send to Kindle) on KDP. The epub seems to be the epub you uploaded if you use that rather than MS Word (recommended). But you can't get the earlier versions unlike Smashwords. |
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I will delve into it. Trying to remember what bloody book that was, although I'm not sure it matters. Not saying it doesn't--simply saying *I* am not sure that it does. Hitch |
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There is also the chance of running into a book that for whatever reason (mostly language support or textbooks) that can only be downloaded in KFX. In that case, Download & transfer via USB will not show in the options menu.
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I can see a need for some text books or manuals to be fixed layout (essentially a PDF) but really people publishing fiction in fixed layout to exactly copy a printed layout are delusional. |
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it happens all the time now. Why? B/c KC doesn't have a quality filter that detects laziness--"oh, hey, look, I can slap a PDF in here, that my print designer gave me, push a button and it's done like dinner!" We see a lot of that over at the KDP forums. It's fast, easy, they don't have to learn how to make an ebook or pay someone (cough) and that's how they roll. [SMH]. It's frustrating as hell. If/when i see that, in an ebook, I promptly return it and send nastygrams saying "fixed-layout should not be used for novels." (or many others, while I'm at it.) Hitch |
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Fixed layout is a bad idea to include in any eBook format.
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My youngest relatives often read fixed layout books. All to often, the graphics and text (not to mention the video and audio content) must be kept together. They are using Apple tablets for the most part since I haven't found a decent app on Android for that purpose.
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Well, this is annoying as hell...
I went to Amazon and my Content and Devices and promptly--without any problems--downloaded an eBook that we'd made, in 2021, as an AZW for my "K2" device.
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....she said, having known full well that it took Amazon nearly 5 years to repair the "TOC.html functionality in K4Mac hasn't worked past the third item in the TOC list" item....and that fxl didn't have working links, and that..... Hitch |
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