04-01-2013, 09:10 AM | #1 |
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Book vs Document
I am pretty new with my Paperwhite Kindle.
I did not understand why sometime the transfer of AZW3 files worked correctly and I was able to see the book on the kindle while in other times the book did not show up. Now, I discovered that when the book does not show up it is listed as "document" and not as a "book". So, the question is: is there a setting or a tag that makes the difference, by creating a book or a document? |
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I have a similar situation on my Kindle Fire HD. I downloaded four books from Baen Books, imported them into Calibre, and pushed them out to the Kindle. On my PW, two show up with a "Personal" banner on the cover, on the HD they show up in the Docs library instead of the Books library. The other two show up normally.
I saw something in the Fire forum about a tag that was PDOC instead of EBOK, or something like that. Where would I find this tag in Calibre? OK, I found it (I think) under Conversion/Mobi Output, but... That's only the settings that will be performed when you DO a conversion, right? Is there someplace that shows you what the setting in the book currently is? Can it be changed without performing a conversion, since I don't really want to convert the book? As always, thanks for your help. |
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Again, when converting books and pushing them to the kindle, sometime they are seen as books other time as personal documents. I did some research on internet to understand the reason of this behavior but so far I did not find anything interesting. |
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Not to confuse things but IIRC no matter what tag (PDOC or EBOK) you have in the book if you send it via email it will be placed in your Personal documents area.
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