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Old 12-31-2010, 07:15 PM   #1
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ASIN info

So I keep playing with the idea of having a script automatically update a facebook or twitter status with the progress of a book being read...

I've been digging through the logs on the kindle and this is what I've found so far:
Code:
cat /var/log/messages |grep INFO
101231:170557 cvm[13183]: I Reader:BOOK INFO:book asin=B001B5VPXY,file size=103256,file last mod date=2010-09-22 17.57.10 -0700,content type=ebook,length=MobiPosition_ 115814,access=2010-12-31 16.24.08 -0700,last read position=MobiPosition_ 115179,isEncrypted=false,isSample=false,isNew=false,isTTSMetdataPresent=false,isTTSMetadataAllowed=true,fileExtn=azw:
It shows the progress of the book I'm reading. It's easy to find the percentage of it by taking (last read position/length). The only thing I have a problem with is that some of the books on my kindle are mobi files that I didn't download from Amazon. So obviously they aren't going to have the asin= variable in there.

Take for instance Catcher in the Rye (which isn't available for Kindle, but I don't feel bad about having an ebook of it since I have a paperback copy):
Code:
101231:171058 cvm[13183]: I Reader:BOOK INFO:book asin=unknown,file size=343348,file last mod date=2010-10-01 00.24.46 -0700,content type=ebook,length=MobiPosition_ 488220,access=2010-12-31 17.05.54 -0700,last read position=MobiPosition_ 265449,isEncrypted=false,isSample=false,isNew=false,isTTSMetdataPresent=false,isTTSMetadataAllowed=true,fileExtn=mobi:
Now it won't send my progress to amazon (even if I have the same file on my MBP for instance, I have to find my progress everytime I read on my Kindle and vice versa). So my question is this... If I was able to put an asin number into the meta info of the mobi file (would be B000JDXJ4C for Catcher in the Rye), do you think it would sync between my devices or not?

I'm guessing not, but I had to ask.
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