Hyperlinks in Kindle books

[bchowdhr]

Hadrien, I also downloaded one of the books on my Kindle and then went to the links inside the books to download some more books. It works beautifully. Awesome. Thanks.

I am now waiting to see how I can get a custom newspaper delivered to me everyday from Feedbooks.

[Nate the great]

Hadrien-

Can you post a copy of the code fragments for the links? I want to write my own ebook library index as an ebook.

[mjdb]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

Hadrien-

Can you post a copy of the code fragments for the links? I want to write my own ebook library index as an ebook.

Is the syntax the same when creating links in Kindle books the same as it is for ordinary Mobipocket books ?

If they are, there are instructions in the Devolper section of the Mobipocket website that might be relevant.

eg:
Hyperlinks between different ebook files
Linking to another ebook
http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/articl...hyperlinks.htm

"You use the oeb:redirect special URL to link to a different ebook. The syntax is: <a href="oeb:redirect?title=DatabaseName">External Link</a> "


Has anyone tried using the Databases and SQL queries within Mobipocket eBooks that are also described there ?
http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/articl..._reference.htm
http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/articl...=Databases.htm


Martin.

[wallcraft]

The FeedBooks download links work in FBReader if you turn on "Open External Links" (Cross-Tools icon, Web tab). I tested this under Windows and on a Nokia 770. I have not tested this on my iLiad, because I don't have much experience with its web browser.

On the Nokia, the spaces in the filename don't interact well with the file manager. It would be much simpler if "Author - Multiple Word Title.mobi" was changed to (say) "Author-Multiple_Word_Title.mobi".

The links did not work under Windows MobiPocket Reader. I think the Reader assumes links are shopping requests, so they get redirected through mobipocket.com and I eventually end up on the feedbooks.com home page. This might be made to work if you can detect how MobiPocket is changing the request.

[Hadrien]

Originally Posted by mjdb

Is the syntax the same when creating links in Kindle books the same as it is for ordinary Mobipocket books ?

If they are, there are instructions in the Devolper section of the Mobipocket website that might be relevant.

eg:
Hyperlinks between different ebook files
Linking to another ebook
http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/articl...hyperlinks.htm

"You use the oeb:redirect special URL to link to a different ebook. The syntax is: <a href="oeb:redirect?title=DatabaseName">External Link</a> "


Has anyone tried using the Databases and SQL queries within Mobipocket eBooks that are also described there ?
http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/articl..._reference.htm
http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/articl...=Databases.htm


Martin.

It's actually much more simple. The oeb:redirect is for books that you already have in your library. In my case, I simply created normal links pointing to our files: <a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/mobi/xx">Text</a>

Tried it on the Mobipocket Reader for Windows on XP, and on my smartphone (HTC Touch) and it worked on both of them.