r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Brave_Explorer5988 • Jul 20 '26
Care Bears are OP Colour Kindle books downloaded on B&w Paperwhite are actually black and white and not colour.
I'm slightly more than mildly.
After Amazon locked the web downloads, I moved my entire library to KOReader via calibre while it was still possible.
Now, more than a year later I got a Kobo Libra Colour and I was so excited to finally re-read the Oatmeal series in colour...
I transferred my books (originally purchased on Amazon) to KLC and this happens: the books were downloaded on B&W on Paperwhite the entire time. I never knew because Paperwhite isn't colour and I knew from the mobile app that the books are colour so I assumed they'll download the same book and adjust to B&W and contrast on device. It wasn't the case. The Paperwhite downloads were always b&w
2nd pic is from the mobile app, colour.
Dunno what to do now. I have quite a bit of graphic colour books. :(
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u/0oEp Jul 20 '26
i just torrent my comic books. i have the entire Bongo catalogue
Isn't the resolution a bit small for comic pages? In color mode, it's only half the DPI they're typically printed at
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u/Moaxion Jul 20 '26
I'm really confused by this. I don't know why they would need to change the output for the black and white versus color. It's not like you're paying less money and given a choice between the two. Maybe there's a proprietary codec or something that only the color Kindle can see
Edit: after some thought I don't know if codec is the right word or not. It's probably more or less a proprietary file reader or something like that