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Originally Posted by jswinden
I never use X-Ray as it is never in the books I read. But you have to remember that X-Ray must be added by the book's author/designer/publisher. The person that adds the X-Ray files is also the one who decides what information is included. There might be some firmware X-Ray features, but I doubt it. So X-Ray from book to book varies as far as the info it contains. The Kindle app cannot just magically create this material, it has to rely on the author/designer/publisher added material.
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For the most part xray information is pulled from wikipedia and shelfari.com (an Amazon company). Author/publisher may contribute material there, but it only required that
someone do so. From all I've seen and heard, it appears to be mostly crowd sourced (i.e. not officially done by the author or publisher).
I don't know to what extent the process of pulling the information is automated or if it requires someone at Amazon to push a button or to curate it, or how often the xray information included with a book is updated. As you note, quality varies considerably from one book to another.