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I've done something similar myself with Kindle Cloud Reader a few months ago. For the purpose of language learning, I wanted to extract the surrounding context
by tetec1 23d ago
I've done something similar myself with Kindle Cloud Reader a few months ago. For the purpose of language learning, I wanted to extract the surrounding context of every word I highlighted in books I read. Turns out it's impossible only with the device.
On Kindle Cloud Reader, Amazon serves images for the pages of the book, so you can't directly read the text. But you can indeed OCR the images and extract the context like that. I created a small browser extension with Claude.
It's crazy how difficult Amazon made this process for reasonable use cases like that.
- nemomarx 23d agois it impossible now to crack the file directly to get all of the books text out? there used to be a few ways to decrypt them in calibre and similar
- Seattle3503 23d agoAmazon is clamping down on export paths. It's probably only a matter of time before Kindle Cloud Reader gets locked down with DRM too.
- resoluteteeth 23d agoIt seems like lots of newer books can't be viewed on cloud reader now anyway
- Seattle3503 17d agoI've noticed some new books can't be read on the cloud reader, but I wasn't sure why.
- basetensucks 23d agoI was able to extract "looked up" words (with surrounding context) from the on-device Sqlite database. Example code: https://github.com/joshgummersall/ankix/blob/main/internal/kindle/vocab.go#L245 https://github.com/joshgummersall/ankix/blob/main/internal/k... It's not perfect, but it's usually enough context to produce a decent translation.