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Donnie Ehlen
I have been using my kindles to read to me while I do some chores around the house a lot and I am just learning more about Echo devices. they claim to be able to sync up with your kindle devices for reading. I was wondering if this also works with uploaded MOBI books? I contacted support and they could not give me a straight answer. Kept telling me the book has to say that it supports TTS. But sideloaded books don't give that information. Obviously the support guy is focusing only on books purchased within the Amazon system. Not only for me, but it would be wonderful if it did as it would be for my mom, who is starting to loose her vision. I can see me getting her books in the future so that the echo device could read them to her should her ability to read her kindle diminishes too much. One of the selling points of kindles for me is being able to send her books remotely as we live in different countries. As much as I like the voiceview feature, it is not entirely smooth to use. It needs work. But it seems the echo devices are really easy to use with simple voice commands.
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 a kindle with .mobi books on it. The books are also on my iMac and I want to move them to my iPad mini to read them. I downloaded the eMobi book appllication from the App store, but cannot figure out how to get the books from my computer to my iPad mini. Any help out there? thanks..
It seems to me that DOCX is easily in no higher than fourth place world wide for digital books. PDF, MOBI and EPUB seem to be the clear winners for ebooks in front of DOCX. Making everyone convert to a lesser functioned ebook format before going into Logos doesn't seem to make good long-term sense.
I've gone "all-in" with Logos just recently in the last 3 months although I first tried it more than 8 years ago in seminary. I now absolutely love it. The UI has been greatly improved. The personal books area is the one where I feel it most needs to be brought up to current day standards...
Tim Kimberley:It seems to me that DOCX is easily in no higher than fourth place world wide for digital books. PDF, MOBI and EPUB seem to be the clear winners for ebooks in front of DOCX. Making everyone convert to a lesser functioned ebook format before going into Logos doesn't seem to make good long-term sense.
For clarification: ".docx" isn't an ebook format... and the tool is called "personal books" for a reason. Logos doesn't intend for you to purchase eBooks in other formats to include in your library... they want you to purchase the books from them. The tool is designed for you to take YOUR content (hence "personal") and create an eBook which is compatible with your Logos digital library. This feature is a "loss leader" in a way for the company. They don't make money by providing this service... they certainly wouldn't want to make it very easy to purchase books elsewhere and bring them into your library.
I definitely appreciate your quick response. I disagree that personal books should be seen as a loss leader. I work in a similar field and have found out that it isn't a loss for people to consider you the center of their world. Let personal books only be searched at an archaic level. Buy it from logos and it will be all linked up and tagged up. I really want logos to be the center of my Christian reading world. The inability of importing my own epubs and mobi books forces me to live in dual worlds (Logos & Kindle). I also have to remember...was that book one I have in kindle or is it in the Logos world?
I will probably spend around $3,000 in resources from logos over the next year or so and I am not trying to stab logos in the back. It's frustrating if Logos thinks the personal resources is not a viable area. There's a reason why spotify and itunes let you import your own music. 2 reasons. 1.) They search your stuff and then they know what you like. They then sell you much more of what you like because they've seen all your personal collection. It ends up exponentially increasing sales. 2.) They know you will grow accustomed to being in a certain ecosystem. If you spend hours reading your own personal collection of hundreds of books in the Logos ecosystem you'll stay in that ecosystem and convenience will prevail and you will buy more and more over time from their ecosystem.
Anyway, my purpose isn't to rant. As Executive Director of a ministry I simply want to share my experience and then say as user I think Logos will make more money from me in the long-term if they let me import and even store in the cloud my personal epub books.
Digital Right concerns aren't a viable long-term concern since all you need to do is have the person agree to terms/conditions when they are uploading letting you know they have legally obtained the ebooks.
They are not open to changing this. Kindle books use DRM (digital rights management) so they aren't easily converted to other formats, and even if they could be hacked into some other format, this would generally be illegal (except with public domain books).
Tim Kimberley:Digital Right concerns aren't a viable long-term concern since all you need to do is have the person agree to terms/conditions when they are uploading letting you know they have legally obtained the ebooks.
That doesn't fly. Ever hear of Napster? If Logos were to create a tool which allowed users to break the copyright protection other companies put in place, they would be sued out of business. The legality of converting ebooks from one format to another (by breaking copy protection) may be up in the air, but there is a reason that there aren't any real businesses providing that service for a fee... just as there are no companies providing the ability to break DVD/BLU-RAY copy protection.
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