kindle

Get Kindle Library Book List


Does anyone know of a way to programmaticly get a list of books from a user's Amazon Kindle Library? I would like to build a service for lending books. Ideally users would be able to export a list of books they are willing to lend without having to type each one individually. I believe Amazon may have some sort of API for this but have been unable to find any documentation. I am more or less language agnostic on this one.


Solution

  • Solution: The user is given an option to mount their kindle as a removable drive, and further to drag/drop all of their ebook files onto the page. I then parse all the file names which contain the ASIN. Using the ASIN, I can search Amazon for the book information including if it is lendable or not.

    This is not exactly what I was hoping for, but it works good enough. If someone comes up with a more eloquent solution, I would be very interested!