'Sample' books from Amazon

copyrite · 10-30-2010, 08:37 PM

Is there any way to search on the Kindle device or the Amazon site as to what samples of books you've downloaded from Amazon? For a while I was using this as a way to keep track of future reads, but through (OK, total) fault of my own, my Kindle has taken on a life of its own. I should've used the collections software I've seen mentioned, but now I'm just going from book to book, enjoying each and every one and I stubbornly don't want to have to classify any books. Then there's that moment I think there's that one book I downloaded the sample of and it was about?

(I'm really a rather organized person. Except for my Kindle it seems.)

Help?

wallcraft · 10-30-2010, 10:06 PM

A sample on your Kindle will have EBSP in its filename, for example:

Code:

American Lion Andrew Jackson in-asin_B001FA0JSM-type_EBSP-v_0.azw

You can search for this when connected to a computer via USB. The rest of the filename is enough to find it in the Kindle Store, in particular you can search on the ASIN (in the above case B001FA0JSM).

If you ever decide to add collections, see Kindle Collection Manager for Windows,

copyrite · 10-30-2010, 10:14 PM

That's a big help! Thank you.

TheKindleWorm · 10-31-2010, 05:21 AM

Wallcraft makes a very good suggestion.

There is no easy way of searching for all the samples on the Kindle directly. If you don't have many pages of kindle books then you can easily see samples on your kindle as they all have the word "sample" preceding them. This is no use to me as I have 60 pages of books to look through.

So I store all the samples into a collection on the kindle. If I buy a sample book then I remember to delete the sample off the kindle. Bit of a faff but it is a system that works for me. Be nice if the kindle automatically removed samples when you buy the same book.

copyrite · 10-31-2010, 07:40 AM

I have 30 some pages that I'd need to go through. I should've stored them in a collection from the get-go, but I had no clue I'd be acquiring this many books this rapidly!

Love your blog, TheKindleWorm... it's in a recipe that Calibre cooks up for me on a regular basis!

Here's what I did. Opened a command window, changed to the kindle drive and typed

dir *ebsp*.azw /s /on > c:\temp\amazonsamples.txt

Found 23 sample books! Yay!

10-30-2010, 08:37 PM	#1
copyrite Wizard Posts: 1,814 Karma: 4985051 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Maryland Device: ...lots! ;) mostly reading on a Kindle Voyage	'Sample' books from Amazon Is there any way to search on the Kindle device or the Amazon site as to what samples of books you've downloaded from Amazon? For a while I was using this as a way to keep track of future reads, but through (OK, total) fault of my own, my Kindle has taken on a life of its own. I should've used the collections software I've seen mentioned, but now I'm just going from book to book, enjoying each and every one and I stubbornly don't want to have to classify any books. Then there's that moment I think there's that one book I downloaded the sample of and it was about? (I'm really a rather organized person. Except for my Kindle it seems.) Help?

10-30-2010, 10:06 PM	#2
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	A sample on your Kindle will have EBSP in its filename, for example: Code: American Lion Andrew Jackson in-asin_B001FA0JSM-type_EBSP-v_0.azw You can search for this when connected to a computer via USB. The rest of the filename is enough to find it in the Kindle Store, in particular you can search on the ASIN (in the above case B001FA0JSM). If you ever decide to add collections, see Kindle Collection Manager for Windows,

10-31-2010, 07:40 AM	#5
copyrite Wizard Posts: 1,814 Karma: 4985051 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Maryland Device: ...lots! ;) mostly reading on a Kindle Voyage	I have 30 some pages that I'd need to go through. I should've stored them in a collection from the get-go, but I had no clue I'd be acquiring this many books this rapidly! Love your blog, TheKindleWorm... it's in a recipe that Calibre cooks up for me on a regular basis! Here's what I did. Opened a command window, changed to the kindle drive and typed dir ebsp.azw /s /on > c:\temp\amazonsamples.txt Found 23 sample books! Yay! Last edited by copyrite; 10-31-2010 at 08:48 AM.

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10-30-2010, 10:14 PM	#3
copyrite Wizard Posts: 1,814 Karma: 4985051 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Maryland Device: ...lots! ;) mostly reading on a Kindle Voyage	That's a big help! Thank you.

10-31-2010, 05:21 AM	#4
TheKindleWorm Guru Posts: 860 Karma: 177868 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: East Anglia UK Device: Kindle 3G, iPhone 3G, iPod 4G, PB 360, Sony 600 sold, Kindle 2i sold	Wallcraft makes a very good suggestion. There is no easy way of searching for all the samples on the Kindle directly. If you don't have many pages of kindle books then you can easily see samples on your kindle as they all have the word "sample" preceding them. This is no use to me as I have 60 pages of books to look through. So I store all the samples into a collection on the kindle. If I buy a sample book then I remember to delete the sample off the kindle. Bit of a faff but it is a system that works for me. Be nice if the kindle automatically removed samples when you buy the same book.

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