I know its silly but does the kindle app on the nook color only take .mobi formats
Also were do you put book files you already have dont see an import button on the app. DO i Just place them in the folder and they will show in the app.. Thanks in advance sorry for being a noob
yes mobi and the other format I'm blanking on... pcs?!?
You drop them in the Kindle folder on the SD card.
So far its my primary reading app for the ability to change the backdrop to sepia
and alter the font sizes. It is a bit of a pain having to convert everything into Mobi format, having to deal with calibers sometimes wacky formatting issues (Although I just got Pocket Mobi Converter to try for conversions).
The only issues I have with it is the android app has problems with showing covers, and they really need to set it up to have 'shelves' within the program and directory, its a mess just dropping 50 or so books into one folder and having to slide through them all within the kindle app itself sometimes.
- Will.
Currently reading The Destroyer 104: Angry White Mailmen
If anyone figures out a way to get covers for side-loaded books to show in the Kindle app, please let me know!
I got it to work once, and it was a royal pain in the but. basically I coped my entire Kindle folder off the NC to my hard drive, went through each mobi file in Caliber and hand set each cover to a jpeg, re-saved the mobi file, then dropped all the files back on the NC, and it worked (well it was actually maybe 75%, some still refused to show covers). Each jpeg was named the same as the mobi file just with the jpg extension.
- Will.
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I've been searching around and haven't found much.
I downloaded some ebooks, and I placed them in the "kindle" folder on the sd card but it's not recognizing them. The file types are .txt, .pdf, and .rtf. I thought kindle.app could read all three but maybe I struck out
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ok, I was followed this guide here but am still having no luck (the naive part of just dragging the docs to the kindle folder was me )
I don't have a kindle so getting amazon to convert the files is not an option.
I tried this method but it's not working either. I tried AZW, then to PCF. Nothing
So does anyone know of a good converter to AZW (or PCF, whatever Kindle for Android reads)?
Ok, I finally figured it out lol.
Kindle can read .mobi format, so convert the ebooks with calibre. Then just drag the .mobi to the kindle folder on the sd card.
Only problem I have now is that the cover art for the books isn't showing. I added the pic, but, in the folder, it just has those separate .jpgs (books covers).
Also, kindle keeps forceclosing when I try to leave a book and go back to the main menu. I tried to fix permissions but didn't have any luck.
Any ideas?
I think it would be much easier to just install FReader or Aldiko from Market. Both are free, support a wide range of formats, and directly handle .mobi assotiations.
So I can get Calibre to send my books to my device and they show up in their respective folders but the cover art I added in Calibre shows up as a separate file from the book rather than on the book itself. Any ideas as to how I could correct this? I am saving them as ePub. Maybe a different format?
I've had th same problem. I've looked on the caliber forums and they say that the NC gets the covers from the first page of the book (not the image), but mine don't show up with either present. Sorry I can't give you a solution.
Sent rom my NC using XDA App
Make sure you have the latest version of Calibre. I've sideloaded several books and all bring over the cover art with the book file.
I'm running 1.0.1, rooted.
Yeah after I played with it a bit more I realized it got the cover from the first picture in the epub file. I got it to mostly work except for a few books that wouldn't allow me to add in the image I wanted to the front of the book.
I understand they can't go on the homescreen but is there anyway with or without root to get some art?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872295
I was talking about in the library for it to have the cover, not on the homescreen.
If it doesn't have art you can just add it using the Calibre software.
If you download covers in Calibre then re-convert them, the artwork shows with no issues.
Sent from my NookColor using XDA App
I've been using Claibre to put art on a bunch of sideload booksI already had, but I've got one set that WILL NOT show the art on the library, no matter what I do. Anyone else have this issue?
I've had the same problem. Some of the books I send from calibre have covers, some do not. If I go to the folder the epubs are stored in, the picture file is there, but the covers don't show up in the library.
I'd love to find the solution.
Same problem here...
I was able to fix most of them by deleting them from my nook, then going into calibre and reconverting them epub to epub, then reloading.
If that didn't work, I deleted again, went back to calibre, edited the metadata, but chose a different soucre, and downloaded the cover again.
But after doing all of that, I still have one that I can't get to load with a cover...
The way that has worked on every single book for me, is to convert the book to Mobi, then delete the epub file, and reconvert it back to epub. (using Calibre)
There are certainly other ways as mentioned above, but this has worked well for me and I've yet to have a book which doesn't show the cover art.
After much trial and error, I hit on Brebauer's solution of delete, edit the metadata, but rather than just reinstall, went back to the convert tab on Caliber, attached the new cover again from there, then converted again. Also, after deleting the old copies, I did a full power off on my Nook before restoring the new ones. Then another full power off before checking new ones. Using that method, I did a package of 30 very late last night and every single one was perfect.
So, I own the NC. It rules as a tablet, but as an e-reader, I love, love, love, love, love my Kindle. It's lighter, viewable in the sunlight better, etc.... Strictly as an e-reader it's better. The problem I have is that I do sometimes read on the NC at night just because the screen is backlit. This doesn't cause any problems when I'm reading Kindle books as they seemlessly sync between both devices with no problems.
The issue I run into is with books that I sideload. I've got a library of books that I obtained from 3rd parties. I can easily sideload them with Calibre on either device with no problems. I can't find a way to sync them though and I'm not sure if there is one. If I read 100 pages on the NC, then I have to figure out what that corresponds to on the Kindle and vice versa. Any ideas? Part of me makes me think this won't work just because the Kindle obviously can't run any apps. I can email documents to my Kindle and get the books to my Kindle that way, but I can't access those documents from the Kindle app on the NC so it's not a solution for me. Any ideas?
I wanted to do the same thing.. followed these instructions & working fine. Won't sync highlights or notes.. only the location.
wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Sync_with_non-Amazon_eBooks
The location is really all I'm looking for. I am definitely going to try this this weekend. I've got over 200 side loaded books so I'm not gonna do this for all of them obviously, but for the ones on my reading list, this is so worth it if it works.
Edit: It looks like this is designed to work between the PC app and the Kindle. Will it also work between the Android Kindle app and the Kindle? What folder do I need to drop my .mobi books in?
It syncs the location both ways fine all devices. You just need to edit the exth type on the mobi file before you sideload it to your kindle/nc.
I don't use calibre to sideload, I just use it to convert epubs to mobi. I import the epub, convert to mobi, then export the mobi. From there, I edit the exth type, and keep that edited mobi in my own directory structure... dragging & dropping the file into my devices. For android devices, there's a kindle directory on the sdcard, and on kindle, drop it in the 'documents' folder.
I imagine you can reimport the mobi file to calibre after you edit it to sideload it that way, but someone else would know better...
I like the default 'Reader' on my stock Nook HD+ (running Nova launcher). But any books I have copied across to the internal memory do not show up in the Library app.
I have a lot of epubs on my home media server.
I installed ES File explorer on my Nook. I then copy across a few books from my media server. I paste them onto my nooks internal memory - I put them in the "Books" folder.
They do not appear in my Library as books (they do appear as Files though). It would be nice to get them to show in the Books section and not in the files section.
They open fine in the Reader app, and they are definitely epubs.
Any ideas how to get them to show in the books part?
Edit: from reading around, I'm getting conflicting information about what should appear in "Library". Does content only purchased from B&N only appear in the "Books" shelf, and everything else appears in "My Files"? Surely any epubs on the device will appear on the "Books" shelf in Library?
sterankin said:
I like the default 'Reader' on my stock Nook HD+ (running Nova launcher). But any books I have copied across to the internal memory do not show up in the Library app.
I have a lot of epubs on my home media server.
I installed ES File explorer on my Nook. I then copy across a few books from my media server. I paste them onto my nooks internal memory - I put them in the "Books" folder.
They do not appear in my Library as books (they do appear as Files though). It would be nice to get them to show in the Books section and not in the files section.
They open fine in the Reader app, and they are definitely epubs.
Any ideas how to get them to show in the books part?
Edit: from reading around, I'm getting conflicting information about what should appear in "Library". Does content only purchased from B&N only appear in the "Books" shelf, and everything else appears in "My Files"? Surely any epubs on the device will appear on the "Books" shelf in Library?
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No idea on the actual Nook reader, but might I suggest Aldiko as an alternative. It will read epubs and will work on ANY android device. Couple Aldiko with the Aldiko Sync application and dropbox and you will be in book reading heaven!!!
I started using ebooks back over a decade ago, and have gone through a number or readers and formats. I initially started with mobipocket and PRC files on PALM, then moved over to Kindle reader and the PRC/Mobi format. Had a similar issue with books not showing up nicely on the bookshelf in the Kindle reader app back in the day. Finally moved over to Aldiko and EPUB format a few years ago. The biggest advantage is the afore mentioned Aldiko Sync. It keeps my library synced between my multiple android devices. This includes the books and the LOCATION in the books. I now have over 1000 ebooks amassed and use Calibre on the PC to make sure I have all of them in EPUB format.
If you are heavily invested in the NOOK ecosystem (and DRM) then ALDIKO will not work, but since your main concern is side loaded books, I am guessing they are DRM free. Also, since I use Calibre for conversion of non EPUB format, I have chosen AMAZON as my main purchase point since there are easy ways to remove DRM, and then I can convert the book over to EPUB and load into Aldiko.
If interested, I can provide more detail on how to use Aldiko, Calibre etc, just let me know.
Thanks I have been using Alkido too, I was using it on my Android phone - I downloaded it on my Nook also.
But when I tested a book in Alkido the formatting was different to the Nook default reader. For some reason on Alkido - the text was not justified properly. It was also slower to turn the pages. The book I tested also had lots of hyperlinks to the appendix at the back of the book, and Alkido was *much* slower when clicking these appendix links. It took several seconds to work, whereas the default reader was very quick.
I haven't spend much time tweaking Alkido settings but maybe I will try that if I am unable to get the books into the Book shelf in Library.
Since there is no Nook Reader App that you can click on to load your last book, you seem to have to go to the Library and scroll across "My Files" to find the book. Which can take some time if you have a lot of files.
Hope this makes sense.
Hmmm
I never use hyperlinks in books. 90% of the books in my library are ones I compiled myself from HTML or Rich txt documents. I tend to go in and remove unwanted items like Table of Contents (lots of links there) as well as junk like page after page of copyright, samples of other books, etc.
I used to have VERY strict guidelines for any book that ended up in my library. I would recompile with the book cover as the first page, a smaller book cover as the actual cover (shows up on the bookshelf) and following the std format where the file name is AUthor last , author first - series number - title (example: Rowling, JK - Harry Potter 01 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone)
Up until about 5 months ago, MOST books started out as HTML and then converted to a MS WORD doc( this lets me get the format just right), then converted to a MOBI via Mobipocket creator (so I could add the author and book cover correctly via meta data) then converted into an epub via Calibre. Recently I got a little lazy, and just get the epub directly and use Calibre to modify the metadata if need be. This does give me some small formatting errors, but its livable.
In your case, Aldiko does have Margin settings. You can adjust the size of the margin, as well as set it to justify LEFT, RIGHT, or CENTER.
Not sure what can be done about the hyperlink issues.
Aldiko also offers you the ability to set up a "shortcut" via widgets directly to a specific book on the homescreen.