Collections file

Oliviakrk · 06-08-2013, 04:34 PM

Hi

I have been trying to manually create collection files. On the internet I found that they should be sha1 checksums.

I created test collections on my Kindle and got this in collections file :
{"mobi@en-US":{"items":["*bb8e4393924c8a3a6622b339485b0d1f89c6dcbc",
"#bcc85a69-17b2-47d6-a084-d137db9cf50c^EBOK",
"#de2f8b3e-37ac-4229-a3be-4d55e42b9d83^EBOK",
"*98fa5c60d5acde87b9244ca4c0a409e7be58958a",
"#6187d2ea-4971-41fb-9896-a70cf0b418ae^EBOK",
"#61e1de5a-1182-4b54-b703-871daaa978fa^EBOK",
"#70897660-9e7f-44cc-bcaf-95a883b52f17^EBOK"],"lastAccess":1370716940938}}

And I have no idea how those hashes are created...

Anyone knows?

Oliviakrk · 06-09-2013, 04:55 PM

Anyone?

NiLuJe · 06-24-2013, 10:55 PM

Look at the Calibre Kindle Collections plugin for more details, but, in short:

Starts with a star: SHA1 checksum of the absolute path of the file on the device
Starts with a hash: ASIN^cdeType (both come from the MOBI header)

(And, you guessed it, the SHA1 way is the fallback [it's a legacy remnant of how it was first handled in FW 2.5] when there's not enough metadata support in the fie format (ie. PDF)).

06-08-2013, 04:34 PM	#1
Oliviakrk Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Central Europe Device: Kindle DX International	Collections file Hi I have been trying to manually create collection files. On the internet I found that they should be sha1 checksums. I created test collections on my Kindle and got this in collections file : {"mobi@en-US":{"items":["bb8e4393924c8a3a6622b339485b0d1f89c6dcbc", "#bcc85a69-17b2-47d6-a084-d137db9cf50c^EBOK", "#de2f8b3e-37ac-4229-a3be-4d55e42b9d83^EBOK", "98fa5c60d5acde87b9244ca4c0a409e7be58958a", "#6187d2ea-4971-41fb-9896-a70cf0b418ae^EBOK", "#61e1de5a-1182-4b54-b703-871daaa978fa^EBOK", "#70897660-9e7f-44cc-bcaf-95a883b52f17^EBOK"],"lastAccess":1370716940938}} And I have no idea how those hashes are created... Anyone knows?

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06-09-2013, 04:55 PM	#2
Oliviakrk Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Central Europe Device: Kindle DX International	Anyone?

06-24-2013, 10:55 PM	#3
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Look at the Calibre Kindle Collections plugin for more details, but, in short: Starts with a star: SHA1 checksum of the absolute path of the file on the device Starts with a hash: ASIN^cdeType (both come from the MOBI header) (And, you guessed it, the SHA1 way is the fallback [it's a legacy remnant of how it was first handled in FW 2.5] when there's not enough metadata support in the fie format (ie. PDF)).

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