Dear Derick,
Thanks for this useful hint. However, I believe your instructions contain
errors. At least the Content Folder by default seems to be another one (you
probably changed yours via the preferences or have a different history of the
application on your system). AFAIK the default location is:
- ~/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/
but you can change it to any other location via the preferences.
Moreover, it seems quite important to use only a Finder alias, and not a
symbolic link or BibDesk will remove the .azw from the Kindle repository if you
have Auto File active.
Regards,
Andreas
On 20/Jan/2012, at 19:25 , Derick Fay wrote:
> Here's something I just figured out. I am in the habit of using BibDesk as
> an organizer / file manager for all of my scholarly reading these days, and I
> have some books on Kindle for the Mac that I wanted to be able to launch from
> BibDesk.
>
> Kindle books are stored in ~/Documents/My Kindle Content but the filenames
> are meaningless. So the solution I found was
>
> 1) navigate to ~/Documents/My Kindle Content
>
> 2) open a .azw file - this will launch Kindle for Mac and open the book so
> you can see which book it is
>
> 3) (in the Finder) make an alias for the .azw file you just opened, with a
> recognizable name
>
> 4) add the alias to the appropriate BibDesk record.
>
> This will work - allowing launching of the Kindle book from within BibDesk -
> even if Autofile is on. I didn't try it, but I assume that if one just
> Autofiled the .azw files, Kindle for Mac would have problems since they'd no
> longer be in the expected location.
>
> It's a bit of a pain at first, if you have a lot of books, but unless Amazon
> makes book titles visible through Applescript (fat chance!) I don't see a way
> it could be automated.
>
> --Derick
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