Hi everyone,
I have been using a Kindle for several years. Since I felt that my 8-year-old Kindle was somewhat outdated, I just bought a new one – a Kindle Fire HD 10. It’s pretty awesome in general and does tons of things that I don’t even need. BUT: My biggest disappointment (and probably naïve deception) is that my whole structure from the previous Kindle is now gone. I have invested years in converting and uploading books through Calibre and organizing them into lists on my Kindle and now it's all gone.
Anyway, after hours of forum searches and formatting, I managed that all my Calibre books (in mobi format) now appear under “Books” on the new Kindle and not under “Documents” as they all the sudden did.
However, all the individual covers that I have researched and downloaded for my books don’t appear as covers on the new Kindle no matter what I do.
Some forum entries say that the new versions of the Kindle won’t accept individual book covers anymore because the device automatically downloads a cover from Amazon. And you could only change that if you checked a setting under Calibre, which would then disable WhisperSync (which I need since I have different devices) and would also sort all books under “Documents” (which I don’t want).
My question: Do you have any advice on how I could get my individual book covers to appear on the Kindle Fire under “Books”?
Here is what I have done so far: I have deleted all dates, IDs etc. from the metadata on Calibre and uploaded new covers for the books. I have formatted all books under Calibre so that they were again converted to mobi with the tag EBOK instead of PDOC.
Then I sent the books from Calibre to my Kindle visa USB cable (which apparently makes a significant difference to emailing books through Calibre).
Is it possible that a cover must have a certain size, measurements or resolution to appear as Cover on the Kindle Fire?
I am really desperate. I spent so much time working on this with little results.
I really hope you can help me. What use is a fancy HD screen if all you can see is some lousy book cover – blank page with the title written on it.
Thank you very much!
I have been using a Kindle for several years. Since I felt that my 8-year-old Kindle was somewhat outdated, I just bought a new one – a Kindle Fire HD 10. It’s pretty awesome in general and does tons of things that I don’t even need. BUT: My biggest disappointment (and probably naïve deception) is that my whole structure from the previous Kindle is now gone. I have invested years in converting and uploading books through Calibre and organizing them into lists on my Kindle and now it's all gone.
Anyway, after hours of forum searches and formatting, I managed that all my Calibre books (in mobi format) now appear under “Books” on the new Kindle and not under “Documents” as they all the sudden did.
However, all the individual covers that I have researched and downloaded for my books don’t appear as covers on the new Kindle no matter what I do.
Some forum entries say that the new versions of the Kindle won’t accept individual book covers anymore because the device automatically downloads a cover from Amazon. And you could only change that if you checked a setting under Calibre, which would then disable WhisperSync (which I need since I have different devices) and would also sort all books under “Documents” (which I don’t want).
My question: Do you have any advice on how I could get my individual book covers to appear on the Kindle Fire under “Books”?
Here is what I have done so far: I have deleted all dates, IDs etc. from the metadata on Calibre and uploaded new covers for the books. I have formatted all books under Calibre so that they were again converted to mobi with the tag EBOK instead of PDOC.
Then I sent the books from Calibre to my Kindle visa USB cable (which apparently makes a significant difference to emailing books through Calibre).
Is it possible that a cover must have a certain size, measurements or resolution to appear as Cover on the Kindle Fire?
I am really desperate. I spent so much time working on this with little results.
I really hope you can help me. What use is a fancy HD screen if all you can see is some lousy book cover – blank page with the title written on it.
Thank you very much!