Pdf To Mobi Kindle
Amabella Tevebaugh
What happened yesterday was different. I tried to move mobi ebooks to my kindle. The books were transferred fine, I can see them on my kindle drive on the computer. The problem was when I opened my Kindle to arrange the books I transferred, they weren't there. I tried reconnecting my kindle to the computer and the books are still there. I don't know what's wrong.
File size can be an issue. I've found that if the book's file size is greater than 50MB, the file will transfer to the documents folder on disk, but not appear on the kindle. In my case, I used Calibre to convert mobi to azw3, which reduced the file size, and the book then appeared on my kindle.
Maybe Amazon has stopped selling this book any longer, and delete it from their library. If they abandoned one book, this book will disappear from your cloud and devices, because these books are linked to your account by amazon and you haven't back them up.
I don't know why these books aren't showing up, but an alternative method you might try is using the Send to Kindle app from Amazon. There are versions for PC and Mac that you can download at www.amazon.com/sendtokindle.
You may want to check the settings on your pc, in particular the mobi files themselves. I'm not sure, but I've had "missing" files before. Try right clicking on the file and selecting "properties". From their, on the "General" tab, make sure at bottom (Attributes) the "Hidden" box isn't checked. Also, doing the same (right click / Properties) under "Security" tab make sure you have all "Full Control, Read, Write" etc in "Permissions for SYSTEM" checked to "Allow".
One issue with doing that was that some books even lost progress tracking... and after further analysis it looked to me like there was some format change, e.g. progress files (I think those are files with *.mbs extension) had some hashes (some random set of characters) in their name, which I had to delete and then suddenly progress was visible, etc.
Edit: I just found a method that worked for me, move the "books" folder to a different location, restart the books app, maybe restart the kindle, eventually, all the old books will go away from the app's library. Then move the "books" folder back to where it belongs. I restarted the app and the kindle again and read a kindle store book for a while and when I went back to the library, all the mobis were there in the library.
I have an entire book laid out in Indesign that I now need to convert to a MOBI file for Kindle readers. I'm finding this is an impossible task that I used to be able to do with my older versions of Indesign. Is there a plugin that I can use for CC that will do this for me? I'm also having a lot of difficulties getting a good EPUB file. All my fonts are squeezed together and my images in one chapter are showing up at the end of the chapter instead of in the text as they should.
I'm a little upset with Adobe for not having a way to contact them with questions. They were pretty good about chatting with me when I was trying to decide to subscribe to the Cloud version... yet I'm not getting much help at all with this new problem that I've spent two days trying to figure out. Does anyone have any suggestions?
This is not really so much Adobe's fault as it is Amazon's. You can try the Kindle Previewer app to convert to MOBI but the other issues you're talking about are impossible to diagnose without real details.
Thanks for the Reply. I'm using the most current version of InDesign CC on Windows 7. I downloaded Adobe Digital Edition to view my EPUB. I'm exporting to EPUB through Indesign Export to EPUB in the Book Menu. None of my fonts are showing correctly even though I checked Embed all fonts, and my images are showing up at the end of the chapter instead of where they belong with the text. It's all a mess.
I'm using InDesign CC (13.1 x64), running on Windows 7 Pro with Service Pack 1. Adobe Digital Editions Version 4.5.8.182857. Fonts are all open type, I can't figure out how to anchor the images and I believe I'm using the styles properly.
Changed my Paragraph Styles to have spaced before and after certain paragraphs so my quotes stand out like they do in the print book... and it still isn't working. Very unimpressed with Adobe right now. I'm not a newbie to working with book layout, but since I upgraded to CC it's been somewhat of a nightmare.
Hello Bob, I have a related question. I have been able to convert epub files to mobi in the past using Kindle Previewer, but now it gives me an error. This is a 300+ page novel with a fixed-layout epub. I am using Mac OS 10.15.1. The document was created in InDesign 15.
I tried downloading EBookConverter from the Apple store and it did the conversion, but when I open it in K. Previewer it has lost all its formatting. I have also tried converting it from a PDF file. Both work fine in Apple Books, but not on Kindle.
I am generating a multi-chapter eBook for Kindle Fire by first generating a well-formed xhtml-based EPUB 3.0 format file and then converting the .epub file to .mobi w/ Kindle Previewer and/or kindlegen. The generated .mobi file transfers properly to the Kindle and looks entirely correct. The problem is that my generated file never produces the "Learning Reading Speed" status at the bottom or the actual estimate of reading time. The reading speed feature never seems to get activated for any .mobi file generated with kindlegen. I'm aware that status area cycles through various features/statuses by pressing the status area on the reader screen and am certain that the feature is never activated.
I have generated an alternate version of the .mobi file using Calibre and the reading speed feature is enabled, however the format of the output file is heavily altered and is not consistent with the kindlegen format.
The tag information is published elsewhere, but often overlooks that a kindlegen generated .mobi file can have two versions of the same book embedded within the .mobi file, each with a primary header. If the tags are added to the first primary header (typically a v6 header) but not the second primary header (typically a v8 header), the Kindle device will not recognize the tags.
In my case, the tags needed to be added to the second primary header which allowed the Kindle device to treat the file as a book rather than a document. Most .mobi tag editors reference the first primary header only, which can cause confusion. Alternately, the .mobi could be split into two files in which case the tags could be manually added to the primary header of the relevant post-split file.
Amazon started offering support for DRM-free EPUB files that are e-mailed to Kindle e-readers since April last year. That was a surprise move that perhaps none had expected coming from Amazon given how ferociously protective the retail giant usually is with regard to the sort of content that could be read via Kindle devices. For Amazon, the ideal scenario would be to source all of your content requirements from the Kindle Store.
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I want to be able to send documents with a particular label to my kindle. I would like them to be in a format that allows the Kindle to set the text format and size easily. Preferable it would be in something like Mobi.
I just wanted to check on something about your workflow. Are you using the Amazon Kindle? If that's the case, I'm sorry to say that we don't have the Kindle integration available right now. However, we do have a request to add Kindle to our list of integrations. Please let me know if you would like to be added to that request.
I understand that I need to read and mark up .mobi, .epub, kindle & apple books in their respective external apps, but I wondered if there is a way to import these files into Devonthink in order to have DT search the full texts of the documents alongside my PDFs and other documents.
DT is fine with DRM-free .epub files, but not .mobi or DRM-protected formats. But you can convert .mobi to .epub in Calibre, and DeDRM can strip DRM from older (pre-2023) Kindle books so that you can convert those too.
You can also do this without installing Calibre. This would be really handy on a Chromebook, for example. There is a free, online site called EPUB Converter that will let you upload the epub and it lets you then download the mobi equivalent.
Basically I put my mobi e-books on skydrive and when I want to put them in the Kindle app I just select to open the files in another app and I can select the Kindle app. I am unable to do this with my iPad mini.
Both my iPad3 and Mini are running IOS 6.1.3. I did some google searches and found that this may be an issue with some iPads running 6.1.3. I installed a file manager app on my Mini and it appears that it sees the mobi files as rar format files so it does not give me the option to open them with the Kindle app.
Does anyone know if there is a fix for this issue? I was planning on using my Mini as my primary e-book reader and I was hoping to be able to do this without having to convert all my mobi files into mother format
As I mentioned above, I am using the "open with" feature but the Kindle app does not show because the iPad mini is not seeing the files as a mobi file. That is the process I am using with my iPad3 and it works just fine on it.
Please read my posts again. I have been saying that the iPad mini, not the Kindle app, is seeing the file as a RAR. My iPad mini does not even give me the ability to select the Kindle app because it does not see it as a mobi file. When I select open with another app the Kindle app does not show on the list.
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