userannotlog

[druss67]

Hi,

I would like to to extract information from userannotlog coming from my kindle.

Do you know if somebody do this before ? With a script or perhaps with Calibre ?

[HarryT]

Moved to the dev forum.

[druss67]

sorry Harry, for this mistake.

userannotlog is used by amazon to collect informations about your reading, which book you read, which day you read it, how many time you spend to read this book, etc.

I want to do the same, an historical of my reading.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by druss67

sorry Harry, for this mistake.

userannotlog is used by amazon to collect informations about your reading, which book you read, which day you read it, how many time you spend to read this book, etc.

I want to do the same, an historical of my reading.

I do not recall seeing that information posted here.

For the K4 listed in your info block on the left?

Most of our developers are on: "Summer Holiday from Kindle Hacking" -
It may be a few days before someone has time to look at your request.

[druss67]

Yes this is for my kindle 4NT.
You will find a part of my userannotlog. it seems that it is xml format, I think.
I will try to open with excel and see what is workable.

PHP Code:

<book key="ffcbe2cc-e68a-49a3-a3d4-f31b9336c58b" type="EBOK" version="0" guid="L&apos;Apothicaire:CA26BD9A" format="mobi7">
<last_read action="create" begin="450981" pos="450981" timestamp="2012-10-30T19:39:43" state="444154410000007c4542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff00000000000000100006e1a5000000030000000001021f000000000c0003000200000000000300020009001f0006e023ffff003300000004ffff003610000001ffff0037000000000009001f00000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="461672" pos="461672" timestamp="2012-10-30T19:45:11" state="44415441000000584542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff000000000000001000070b680000000200000000010200000000000300030002000000000003000200000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="461672" pos="461672" timestamp="2012-10-30T19:46:45" state="44415441000000584542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff000000000000001000070b680000000200000000010200000000000300030002000000000003000200000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="484300" pos="484300" timestamp="2012-10-30T22:51:30" state="444154410000007c4542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff0000000000000010000763cc000000030000000001021f000000000c0003000200000000000300020009001f000763fcffff003300000004ffff003610000001ffff0037000000000009001f00000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="499984" pos="499984" timestamp="2012-10-31T08:06:56" state="444154410000007c4542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff00000000000000100007a110000000030000000001021f000000000c0003000200000000000300020009001f0007a0d9ffff003300000004ffff003610000001ffff0037000000000009001f00000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="517597" pos="517597" timestamp="2012-10-31T08:40:33" state="44415441000000584542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff00000000000000100007e5dd0000000200000000010200000000000300030002000000000003000200000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="526543" pos="526543" timestamp="2012-10-31T09:44:23" state="444154410000007c4542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff0000000000000010000808cf000000030000000001021f000000000c0003000200000000000300020009001f0008089affff003300000004ffff003610000001ffff0037000000000009001f00000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="530337" pos="530337" timestamp="2012-10-31T09:58:53" state="44415441000000584542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff0000000000000010000817a10000000200000000010200000000000300030002000000000003000200000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="531545" pos="531545" timestamp="2012-10-31T13:00:37" state="444154410000007c4542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff000000000000001000081c59000000030000000001021f000000000c0003000200000000000300020009001f00081bebffff003300000004ffff003610000001ffff0037000000000009001f00000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="554321" pos="554321" timestamp="2012-10-31T14:25:41" state="44415441000000584542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff0000000000000010000875510000000200000000010200000000000300030002000000000003000200000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="572236" pos="572236" timestamp="2012-10-31T14:49:04" state="44415441000000584542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff00000000000000100008bb4c0000000200000000010200000000000300030002000000000003000200000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="572236" pos="572236" timestamp="2012-10-31T16:02:25" state="44415441000000584542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff00000000000000100008bb4c0000000200000000010200000000000300030002000000000003000200000000000000000000fdea" />
<last_read action="create" begin="572236" pos="572236" timestamp="2012-10-31T16:34:10" state="44415441000000584542415200000001000000004542565300000004ca26bd9a0000000100000008ffffffff00000000000000100008bb4c0000000200000000010200000000000300030002000000000003000200000000000000000000fdea" />
</book> 


[knc1]

If you make any headway on decoding the value of that "state" variable, let us know.

That one looks like it may be a lot of fun.

PS: Is this a book side-loaded by Caliber?

[NiLuJe]

It's clearer for KF8 files, state is the position, in hex.

For M7, pos is also in the state var, among unknown other things: it's the 8 bytes near the middle that change the most.

FWIW, for the book entry, key is the ASIN, as usual, type the cdeType, and guid is the PDB name:id

[druss67]

@knc1;

this file is available in your kindle here : Kindle/system/userannotlog

see attachment.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by druss67

@knc1;

this file is available in your kindle here : Kindle/system/userannotlog

see attachment.

What information out of it are you looking for ?

And in what format?

[druss67]

In fact I would like, to have a kind of historical/statistics like this : the book named “the Hobbit” have been read from 01/07/2013 to 25/07/2013 in 65hours.

In an excel file or the best will be an integration into Calibre.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by druss67

In fact I would like, to have a kind of historical/statistics like this : the book named “the Hobbit” have been read from 01/07/2013 to 25/07/2013 in 65hours.

In an excel file or the best will be an integration into Calibre.

More than just a re-format then.

Hmm...
An accumulation of the reading time per book;
Plus the start and the end time.

Since that is not reporting anything that would show (directly) that a person was reading more than one book at a time - -
Perhaps include a count of the "reading sessions" ?

Think of that for a moment...
Otherwise a "reference book" in the report would look like it took the entire time you had the book on the device to read it.
But with a "reading sessions" count, that would be a real tip-off that the book was only being used as a reference.
(The "reading sessions" count would be unusually high.)

*And*

How about reporting the length of the book? (that log might be showing us how many bytes total is in the book.)
or
Perhaps the average bytes per "reading session"?

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Output format(s):

How about something general purpose, that almost anything can use?
Like CSV (comma separated variables)?

Note: In general, members of this forum do not do custom "code this for me" requests. (Although some members do "work for hire".)

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Processing:

All the above relatively easy to do in Lua.
But Lua is only pre-installed by Amazon in the 5-series firmware and this request is for a 4-series firmware device.
I do not know off-hand what processing resources are pre-installed by Amazon in the 4-series firmware.

Hmm...
On the subject of Lua -

Why not switch this thread's subject into a "feature request" for either (or all) of our multi-format readers?
Those are already written in Lua, work across device types, and are open source programs. Under **our** control, not under Amazon's ?

[druss67]

Thank you for your interesting reply.

I am a little bit surprised that nobody is interested to collect reading informations.

In fact, only Amazon collects them to analyze your reading habit.

[NiLuJe]

@druss67: You're not. Cf. https://github.com/mattbnz/kindle-utils for one log parsing implementation.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by druss67

Thank you for your interesting reply.

I am a little bit surprised that nobody is interested to collect reading informations.

I already know how much I read. It seems to me that this log file would simply be telling me information that I already know.