I'm using Kindle for Mac 1.8.1 (the latest) with a default installation, & my
Kindle books are in ~/Documents/My Kindle Content .
A little trial and error reveals that Kindle for Mac just looks for the files
that are in the default directory. If you move a file out, KfM won't display
it in your Library. But you can rename them and they are still recognized.
My collection of Kindle books that I want to access via BibDesk is small enough
that I'm going to stick with the working manual system from my prior email.
cheers
Derick
On Jan 25, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On Jan 25, 2012, at 12:22, Fischlin Andreas wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> This is not correct, BibDesk autofiles both Finder alias files and symlink
> files, not their target files.
>
>> 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
>
> I don't have a Kindle, so I don't know how this works. Does it just look what
> files are there in a given location, or does it maintain a database of
> available files? But you're probably right that autofile of the original .azw
> files would screw things up. One thing you could do is to do autofile
> manually, or do the autofiling in a script hook instead so you can manage it
> more to your liking (e.g. replace by a link automatically, or not to file
> when it's in a certain directory).
>
> Christiaan
>
>
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