[metadata download]Is it possible to get book price from amazon?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Inukami

@BetterRed, where did you find the price column under Get Books? I couldn't find it.

Betwixt Title and DRM



As you can see nothing for amazon.au.

Originally Posted by Inukami

For older books, this isn't an option for me as price is shifting but for new books it would be a good idea...

Curious, if you have the e-book why do you care about price now or in the past, it's not as though e-books are an asset you can insure or depreciate**

Added: ** maybe one can if one's daddy is a deputy commissioner at the ATO

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[Inukami]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Betwixt Title and DRM

As you can see nothing for amazon.au.

That is strange. I actually do get prices from amazon.au. Or least when I did a test, I did. I wonder why I do but you don't...

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Curious, if you have the e-book why do you care about price now or in the past, it's not as though e-books are an asset you can insure or depreciate**

I don't want to know but I do. I actually would like to know how much I spend on books and if there are any patterns with my spending. I know I have bought a lot more in recent years.

Regarding insuring the ebooks, I don't see why you couldn't include it in your home contents insurance. You could either include it as a individual item or grouped with rest of contents...I'm not sure if anyone does that. But I guess if you know how much your ebooks are worth, you could put a price on them. But then if they can be found on the cloud (Amazon/iBooks) then you probably wouldn't need insurance would you as can always get them back...

[Nicolas F]

Originally Posted by Inukami

That is strange. I actually do get prices from amazon.au. Or least when I did a test, I did. I wonder why I do but you don't...

I actually updated the amazon plugins after reading this topic
But for the time being you don't have a way to import the price in calibre I think.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Inukami

That is strange. I actually do get prices from amazon.au. Or least when I did a test, I did. I wonder why I do but you don't...

Probably because you were logged into Amazon and I wasn't.

Originally Posted by Inukami

[. . .]Regarding insuring the ebooks, I don't see why you couldn't include it in your home contents insurance.

If your home was rented you wouldn't/couldn't insure it. As a general rule one can only insure items in which one has equity.

If one purchases a printed book at Dymocks one has equity in that copy of that book, hence one can lawfully sell it to Goulds, or put it into a streetside library for others to read. But putting an ebook on eBay or giving it to a passer-by is most likely unlawful because the right to read is non-transferable.

Originally Posted by Inukami

[. . .] But then if they can be found on the cloud (Amazon/iBooks) then you probably wouldn't need insurance would you as can always get them back...

Precisely

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