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Originally Posted by newkindlefun
This one I borrowed with Overdrive, appropriately recognized by Amazon and shows all the extra info. I want to do that with my sideloaded books.
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Amazon (or Kindle itself) did't recognize anything, you are getting
the same exact ebook file (and x-ray and all the extra files) with the same ASIN as you would if you would buy the book. The difference is in the DRM that for library/Overdrive borrow has expire date (or maybe Amazon is remotely deleting the book on that date?)
Amazon just matched books in Overdrive's catalog to their own catalog when Overdrive support was added for Kindles.
The format for file(s) containing data used for "About the book" "other books from this author" etc is know, it was reverse engineered, but unless there is some Amazon API for getting that "average reading time" info you can't realy get that exact same data. You could probably find somewhere an algorithm for that sort of calculation and write a program to create the files Kindle uses, just like the X-ray builder does. I know it produces files for "About a book" but can't remember what info it contains when compated to Amazon's set of files.
It will be interesting to see how shutting down of Selfari website (which X-ray Builder uses for data extraction) effects the future of X-ray Builder.