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tmilovanov / wisecreator

Utility for adding word wise information to non amazon books
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WordWise files created successfully but does not show up in Kindle #35

Open rajpardi opened 3 years ago

rajpardi commented 3 years ago

The .sdr folder and .kll file within this folder is created. But when I put the .MOBI and .sdr folder on Kindle, the WordWise feature does not show up. Anything else i am missing?

mkefa commented 3 years ago

you want to put the entire folder (not just its contents) in Kindle's documents folder

rajpardi commented 3 years ago

I tried that too. But when I do that, the Book does not show up on Kindle.

mkefa commented 3 years ago

is the name of the book in English?

rajpardi commented 3 years ago

Yes it is.

rajpardi commented 3 years ago

Should there be any additional files other than .kll and .mobi?

zpcc commented 3 years ago

Have you modified the metadata? Just like ebook-meta example.mobi -l eng.

rajpardi commented 3 years ago

Which line do I need to modify exactly on Metadata?

zpcc commented 3 years ago

The language. Run the command with your .mobi file, it will modify the metadata automatically.

$ ebook-meta "example book.mobi" # Display the metadata of your book. BTW, you need to install calibre.
Title               : example book
Author(s)           : Unknown
Languages           : zho
Published           : 2020-12-27T03:04:12.158444+00:00
Identifiers         : mobi-asin:3751b166-753c-435d-8937-9b76491a5130

$ ebook-meta "example book.mobi" -l eng  # Modify the language to eng.

$ ebook-meta "example book.mobi"
Title               : example book
Author(s)           : Unknown
Languages           : eng
Published           : 2020-12-27T03:04:12.158444+00:00
Identifiers         : mobi-asin:3751b166-753c-435d-8937-9b76491a5130
rajpardi commented 3 years ago

The .mobi file I have is already in eng. Is there a video that I can follow and try ?

mkefa commented 3 years ago

The .mobi file I have is already in eng. Is there a video that I can follow and try ?

I doubt it. Here's how I do it: I put the book and wisecreator.exe in the same folder. I hold Shift and right click on an empty space in that folder to open the context menu where you then wanna pick "Open PowerShell". There type the following two commands:

1: ebook-meta A.mobi -l eng where A is the name of your book (and wait for the process to be finished) 2: ./wisecreator A.mobi where A is the name of your book (wait until it says to put the book in your Kindle's documents folder.

It's worked with every single book for me so far, but you may want to try a different one in case there's something wrong with the book that you're trying to add WordWise to.

zpcc commented 3 years ago

@rajpardi. Then you just need to copy the new wordwised folder to the documents folder in Kindle, no more steps. If the book doesn't show up, try to reboot your Kindle, maybe you've met a bug.

And I noticed you seem to copy the new .mobi file and .kll file manually, don't forget to move the .kll into the corresponding sdr folder. After you open a fresh new book in Kindle, there should be a new sdr folder.

rajpardi commented 3 years ago

Alright! It is working now. It works on Kindle but not on Fire tablets. Although an ebook purchased directly from Amazon (with wordwise) works on Fire tablet. Thank you for your help!