Thread: How does Amazon identify ebooks?
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Old 09-01-2010, 06:21 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by TonytheBookworm View Post
I see someone filed a request ticket for it on calibre but the author turned it down. His reason was it is specific to amazon and not for a general purpose program like calibre. There has to be a way to do this though. And it is is the asin that has to be embedded because that is what amazon web services uses. How to embed it is beyond me though. You know of any program that will open the mobi file in edit mode so you can see the headers and everything?
I would suggest someone with the appropriate skills look into writing a plugin. I can see that Kovid wouldn't want to do it directly but with the magic of plugins, anything is possible.

It's not _too_ onerous to run a "kindle-fying" plugin after the initial import.
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