Who is in charge of the Amazon Content and Devices UI?

[Rellwood]

The recent changes to Content and Devices have totally ruined my ability to manage my library. Now there are only 25 books shown at a time, and the covers are also shown. Now if you only have 100 books in your library, this isn't too big of a deal, but if you have 1000 books like I do, then there is NO way to be able to scroll through and set them into the collecitons.

ALSO, this was done to the Kindle Unlimited books.

I have long since used webdeveloper tools - the inspector to copy the inner html of the book lists so that I can parse the titles, authors, and dates purchased (or as a Kindle book - dates rented/returned) now I cannot do this. There are no book titles to parse.

https://www.ardenstone.com/2015/01/1...s-from-amazon/

Like not being able to sort the books in collections, this is just another way Amazon has mucked up my ability to organize and manage my library. It is way too tempting to just leave and go somewhere else. My Kobos stopped working, but I am tempted to get another.

Who are the developers of the Amazon website and how can I get them to fix this?

[Sirtel]

I doubt anyone here knows the answer to your question.

For my part, I gave up on using Amazon for library management years ago. I just download all my purchases and manage them in Calibre. If you use a Kobo, then Calibre can also automatically sort your books into collections on your device, no manual management needed.

[tomsem]

They are not going to revert the change. Obviously they redesign without regard to how convenient it is to web scrape. Actually breaking it into pages (instead of infinite scroll) makes it a little easier IMO.

What they should provide is a built-in export feature. And fix the functional issues, e.g., getting more accurate accounting of which books are on which devices.

Just as obviously, the information is still there, and so it is possible to extract it. Some basic JavaScript can do this using the Console. For example, to get all of the Titles on a page, you can:

titleText = “”
titles = document.getElementsByClassName(“digital_entity_ti tle”)
for (n in titles) {
titleText += titles[n].textContent + “\n”
}
copy(titleText)

This simple example will copy titles to the clipboard. If you use class name “digital_entity_details” you will get a string with all of the information concatenated together, but easily split up by a search and replace with an editor.

I have not yet worked out how to extend this and get the details for all pages, at least in the browser console environment.

[Rellwood]

Originally Posted by tomsem

They are not going to revert the change. Obviously they redesign without regard to how convenient it is to web scrape. Actually breaking it into pages (instead of infinite scroll) makes it a little easier IMO.

What they should provide is a built-in export feature. And fix the functional issues, e.g., getting more accurate accounting of which books are on which devices.

Just as obviously, the information is still there, and so it is possible to extract it. Some basic JavaScript can do this using the Console. For example, to get all of the Titles on a page, you can:

This simple example will copy titles to the clipboard. If you use class name “digital_entity_details” you will get a string with all of the information concatenated together, but easily split up by a search and replace with an editor.

I have not yet worked out how to extend this and get the details for all pages, at least in the browser console environment.

This is the webpage that I would copy and paste the clipboard after using the element to select the innerhtml

https://www.ardenstone.com/2015/01/1...s-from-amazon/

When I do it now it says there are no titles.

Also, I do like the covers, dont' get me wrong, but the fact that I only get to see 20 books at a time really, really gets annoying.

I'll try your example, but in the end, I am probably just going to use the following file:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\Cach e\KindleSyncMetadataCache.xml

It keeps up to date with what is current, and is easy to format to import into Calibre