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ubuntourist · 03-15-2011, 08:21 PM

I found a lead at:

http://whitneyindustries.com/b/?p=17

And upon reboot, I can see a collection, but it appears to be empty and nothing can be moved into it. I can rename it or delete it. I may have to cave to the corporate machine (unlikely) or live with a very long list of PDFs.

And for those who are curious, the format is much simpler than I thought (assuming it's correct):

Code:

{"collection name@en-US":
   {"items":["*sha1","*sha1","*sha1",...],
    "lastAccess":longInt},
 "collection name@en-US":
   {"items":["*sha1","*sha1","*sha1",...],
    "lastAccess":longInt}
}

where collection name should be pretty obvious, sha1 is the hex string for the SHA1 hash of each file in the collection, and longInt is a long integer representation of the date. The Kindle overwrites this. The Python program sets it to zero initially, but when I fetched it back after uploading it and rebooting, the Kindle had changed it.

03-15-2011, 08:21 PM	#88
ubuntourist Private Citizen 1st Class Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle 3 WiFi	I found a lead at: http://whitneyindustries.com/b/?p=17 And upon reboot, I can see a collection, but it appears to be empty and nothing can be moved into it. I can rename it or delete it. I may have to cave to the corporate machine (unlikely) or live with a very long list of PDFs. And for those who are curious, the format is much simpler than I thought (assuming it's correct): Code: {"collection name@en-US": {"items":["sha1","sha1","sha1",...], "lastAccess":longInt}, "collection name@en-US": {"items":["sha1","sha1","sha1",...], "lastAccess":longInt} } where collection name should be pretty obvious, sha1 is the hex string for the SHA1 hash of each file in the collection, and longInt is a long integer representation of the date. The Kindle overwrites this. The Python program sets it to zero initially, but when I fetched it back after uploading it and rebooting, the Kindle had changed it. Last edited by ubuntourist; 03-15-2011 at 08:49 PM. Reason: Reformatted for readability.