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mobichuck · 09-09-2011, 12:28 PM

If you go to your Kindle Highlights Page at Amazon (https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights, you'll have to sign in), you'll see that the highlights have a "Read more at location X" link. This tries to shell to the following URL:

kindle://book?action=open&asin=***ASIN***&location=xxxx

This actually launches the following command:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Amazon\Kindle\Kindle.exe" "//book?action=open&asin=***ASIN***&location=xxxx"

(Where ***ASIN*** and xxxx are replaced with a valid Amazon ASIN and location, respectively).

This doesn't actually work, sadly: the Kindle for PC app is launched, but the book is not opened at all (much less to the specified location)).

Has this ever worked? Is this something that recently broke? Does anybody know where I can find docs for the available switches? The normal DOS "help" switches don't seem to work (/help, --help, /?, /h, etc) and I can't find *anything* on Teh Intarwebs. I'd like to get this working, but can't find much info on this at all.

Any help out there?

09-09-2011, 12:28 PM	#1
mobichuck Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle 2	Kindle for PC app: open book to location? If you go to your Kindle Highlights Page at Amazon (https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights, you'll have to sign in), you'll see that the highlights have a "Read more at location X" link. This tries to shell to the following URL: kindle://book?action=open&asin=*ASIN&location=xxxx This actually launches the following command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Amazon\Kindle\Kindle.exe" "//book?action=open&asin=ASIN&location=xxxx" (Where ASIN* and xxxx are replaced with a valid Amazon ASIN and location, respectively). This doesn't actually work, sadly: the Kindle for PC app is launched, but the book is not opened at all (much less to the specified location)). Has this ever worked? Is this something that recently broke? Does anybody know where I can find docs for the available switches? The normal DOS "help" switches don't seem to work (/help, --help, /?, /h, etc) and I can't find anything on Teh Intarwebs. I'd like to get this working, but can't find much info on this at all. Any help out there?