'22 Kindle Scribe will get the new Active Canvas

[Deskisamess]

I have high hopes for Active Canvas. For books like Bible studies. It will mean I don't have to buy from another source so I can strip DRM, edit the spacing to leave room for answers, convert to a PDF, and email it to my Scribe.

While this worked ok, it meant no book cover, and clumsy organization. I'd much prefer the book reside as an actual book on the device.

[jhowell]

Kindle devices have a "system" folder accessible via USB. That folder is hidden on older Kindle devices and visible over MTP on the first edition of the Kindle Scribe. Access to that folder allows the cover thumbnail images shown in the library view to be manipulated.

On the Colorsoft that folder is no longer accessible over MTP, prevent thumbnail changes. I have a concern that this may be the start of a trend for all Kindle devices that use MTP. Making "system" inaccessible would also prevent thumbnail changes on the Scribe, which would be inconvenient for some. But it could also be the beginning of removal of access to other folders.

The ".notebooks" folder holds Scribe notebooks and hand drawn annotations. If Amazon chooses to block access to that folder it will eliminate the possibility of extracting notebooks directly from the device without going through Amazon's server-based mechanism for exporting notebooks.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Kindle devices have a "system" folder accessible via USB. That folder is hidden on older Kindle devices and visible over MTP on the first edition of the Kindle Scribe. Access to that folder allows the cover thumbnail images shown in the library view to be manipulated.

On the Colorsoft that folder is no longer accessible over MTP, prevent thumbnail changes. I have a concern that this may be the start of a trend for all Kindle devices that use MTP. Making "system" inaccessible would also prevent thumbnail changes on the Scribe, which would be inconvenient for some. But it could also be the beginning of removal of access to other folders.

The ".notebooks" folder holds Scribe notebooks and hand drawn annotations. If Amazon chooses to block access to that folder it will eliminate the possibility of extracting notebooks directly from the device without going through Amazon's server-based mechanism for exporting notebooks.

I wonder if it is the same with the new Kindle Paperwhite and 'basic' Kindle? It bodes ill for Scribe as well for future updates I would assume they've moved it to some system storage (where they keep folder and collection database etc.). The vocabulary builder database is in /system as well, FWIW.

I hope they leave .notebooks folder visible.

[maakies]

these are rumours. I suppose as is the one I’m about to share:

Amazon hasn’t used that strategy in several years according to friends who have worked there in product development since 2013.

[apastuszak]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Kindle devices have a "system" folder accessible via USB. That folder is hidden on older Kindle devices and visible over MTP on the first edition of the Kindle Scribe. Access to that folder allows the cover thumbnail images shown in the library view to be manipulated.

On the Colorsoft that folder is no longer accessible over MTP, prevent thumbnail changes. I have a concern that this may be the start of a trend for all Kindle devices that use MTP. Making "system" inaccessible would also prevent thumbnail changes on the Scribe, which would be inconvenient for some. But it could also be the beginning of removal of access to other folders.

The ".notebooks" folder holds Scribe notebooks and hand drawn annotations. If Amazon chooses to block access to that folder it will eliminate the possibility of extracting notebooks directly from the device without going through Amazon's server-based mechanism for exporting notebooks.

Is there a way to add cover images to the files that don't have them? Cause I REALLY want to do that.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by maakies

these are rumours. I suppose as is the one I’m about to share:

Amazon hasn’t used that strategy in several years according to friends who have worked there in product development since 2013.

Um, what strategy are you talking about?

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by apastuszak

Is there a way to add cover images to the files that don't have them? Cause I REALLY want to do that.

I assume you are referring to cover thumbnails not showing in the library view on your Scribe for books not sourced from Amazon. There are a variety of ways to make that happen. It is difficult to make suggestions without details on what you are currently doing.