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Originally Posted by thebestjeter
But how it works? I'm really curious. Is it only for Amazon books? Does the book have to have something particular enable by the publisher?
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There're quite few demos you can find online to see how it works, you can just google it. And yes it's only for amazon bought and library borrowed books through whisper sync, personal document will not work.
As far as I know, it's not something publisher enabled, it's purely depending on amazon on what books they decide to have them x-rayed. Amazon is still rolling out the feature, so not every book has it as it takes some computing power to generate the file.
One interesting thing is that I've looked at the x-ray file a bit, technically you *could* copy the XRAY file and use it for another book with identical ASIN, or edit the XRAY file to change its ASIN, as the file itself is not DRMed. Although the book needs to be exactly identical to the XRAY enabled book for it to be useful, because each reference/entry are associated to the location of the words in that particular book. The only realistic use I can see is to copy the file for identical non-DRMed books, which is what I've done
Edit: just chatted with CS, apparently it's the publisher who decide whether they want the x-ray feature on their books or not, not amazon.