About
This is a node script extracting E-Books from Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader. Useful e.g. for being able to read on devices where the Clour Reader doesn't work and for having a copy in an open format. Works with Chrome/Chromium. Other browsers use different formats for the WebSQL file where the E-Books are stored for offline use.
Code is from this gists:
- 1: https://gist.github.com/yangchenyun/a1c123935d82f5e25d57
- 2: https://gist.github.com/EelMood/84140e557065ac3d73f669f120429ae1
I have just added minor usability improvements (e.g. cmdline switch for input file selection) and a package.json file.
Usage
npm install ./main.js --help
You just need to figure out the file to which the ebook was stored. As an example, in my case that was ~/.config/chromium/Default/databases/https_lesen.amazon.de_0/2
Of course the ebook needs to first be downloaded for offline use:
Go to the library view in the cloud reader App, right click the cover, click Download.
TODO
This is much better then nothing, but far from perfect.
- Generated files may become huge and cause troubles to some browsers. Storing images as standalone files may improve that.
- Page numbers should probably be included (optionally?).
- An option to extract only specific books would be useful for large libraries. Currently, it will extract all e-books found in the given file.
- The script could support the user in finding the right sqlite file.