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@ -460,15 +460,16 @@ customer support and complain loudly about this bug. Maybe Amazon will listen.
If the workaround is not working for you make sure you Kindle firmware
is at least version 5.12.5, released in April 2020.
Covers for books sent to my Kindle ColorSoft do not show up in the book list?
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Covers for books sent to my Kindle ColorSoft and newer do not show up in the book list?
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Amazon deliberately broke this functionality in their ColorSoft in order to
discourage you from reading non Amazon books on their devices. See `this forum
thread <https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=364350>`__ for
details. The only known workaround is to send the books as "Personal documents"
to the Kindle which will fix the covers not showing up but break other features
such as Whispersync and the books will show up under "Personal documents" not
Amazon deliberately broke this functionality in their ColorSoft and newer
devices in order to discourage you from reading non Amazon books on their
devices. See `this forum thread
<https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=364350>`__ for details. The
only known workaround is to send the books as "Personal documents" to the
Kindle which will fix the covers not showing up but break other features such
as Whispersync and the books will show up under "Personal documents" not
"Books" on the device. To enable this in calibre go to
:guilabel:`Preferences->Output options->MOBI output` and enable the check box
that says :guilabel:`Enable sharing of book content`. This will cause all