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Old 05-10-2012, 03:34 PM   #1
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Hello, I have some questions about how the X-ray feature works on the newer Kindles. I've noticed that sometimes X-ray grabs information from Shelfari and sometimes from Wikipedia.

1. Does X-ray work with books that aren't in English?

2. Public domain books are in numerous editions, so does X-ray somehow recognize the author and title, or does each edition have to be entered into Shelfari?

3. Can you login to Shelfari with your Amazon account or do you have to create a new account?

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Old 05-11-2012, 11:46 AM   #2
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I currently do not understand what this X-ray feature is, would someone mind letting me know.
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I currently do not understand what this X-ray feature is, would someone mind letting me know.
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1. Does X-ray work with books that aren't in English?
AFAIK, you only get Shelfari and/or Wikipedia content, if the book is available from Amazon and has an ASIN number.

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2. Public domain books are in numerous editions, so does X-ray somehow recognize the author and title, or does each edition have to be entered into Shelfari?
AFAIK, Amazon identifies books through the ASIN number. If your book doesn't have one, you're not very likely to get an XRay-File.

However, you can:
- add an ASIN from the Kindle Store using the Java Mobi Metadata Editor (works for the iPhone Kindle app)
- generate your own X-Ray data

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3. Can you login to Shelfari with your Amazon account or do you have to create a new account?
AFAIK, you don't need to have a Shelfari account to get X-Ray data.
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Old 05-12-2012, 10:48 AM   #5
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I understand that you don't need to have a Shelfari account to get X-Ray information, but I have a number of books that I bought from Amazon that have ASIN numbers yet don't seem to have X-Ray data.
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I understand that you don't need to have a Shelfari account to get X-Ray information, but I have a number of books that I bought from Amazon that have ASIN numbers yet don't seem to have X-Ray data.
All Amazon books have an ASIN number - it's simply Amazon's catalogue number for the book. A book will only have X-Ray data if the author or publisher has specifically created such data for it - it's not there automatically.
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All Amazon books have an ASIN number - it's simply Amazon's catalogue number for the book. A book will only have X-Ray data if the author or publisher has specifically created such data for it - it's not there automatically.
I've never seen an X-Ray tab in any of my eBooks. I buy all of them from Amazon. Does one have to do something to enable X-Ray on the Kindle Fire and / or Kindle Keyboard?

I have personal controls on which blocks use of a web page. Would this be blocking X-Ray?
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Old 05-15-2012, 10:23 AM   #8
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I've never seen an X-Ray tab in any of my eBooks. I buy all of them from Amazon. Does one have to do something to enable X-Ray on the Kindle Fire and / or Kindle Keyboard?

I have personal controls on which blocks use of a web page. Would this be blocking X-Ray?
To the best of my recollection X-Ray is a KTouch only feature at this point.
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Old 05-15-2012, 12:31 PM   #9
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I did some browsing on the Shelfari site and it seems as if the information is linked to the individual edition and not the work in question. This is unfortunate and to me needlessly duplicative. I have some compilations of public domain works that I had hoped would have X-ray data. I think I would have to log into Shelfari and copy and paste information in order to have something X-ray could use. All I wanted to do was read.
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To the best of my recollection X-Ray is a KTouch only feature at this point.
You are correct!
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To the best of my recollection X-Ray is a KTouch only feature at this point.
Yep. Unfortunately.
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