Book Extras .be file vs. X-Ray file format

Doitsu · 04-22-2012, 07:07 AM

My Kindle iPhone app apparently doesn't support X-Ray files but offers Book Extras for some Amazon books, which seem to be stored in a .plist file with a .be file extension.

I assume that Amazon generates these files from Shelfari content on the fly and I've got a couple of questions regarding this file format:

1. Is the .be format (or the X-Ray format) somewhere documented?
2. Are .be files also used in other Kindle apps?
3. Is it somehow possible to convert X-Ray files generated with the X-Ray file generator to the .be format or to automatically generate them from Shelfari content?

04-22-2012, 07:07 AM	#1
Doitsu Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,689 Karma: 24031401 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW2	Book Extras .be file vs. X-Ray file format My Kindle iPhone app apparently doesn't support X-Ray files but offers Book Extras for some Amazon books, which seem to be stored in a .plist file with a .be file extension. I assume that Amazon generates these files from Shelfari content on the fly and I've got a couple of questions regarding this file format: 1. Is the .be format (or the X-Ray format) somewhere documented? 2. Are .be files also used in other Kindle apps? 3. Is it somehow possible to convert X-Ray files generated with the X-Ray file generator to the .be format or to automatically generate them from Shelfari content?

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