Hi all, my first post. I've registered expressly in these forums to know from some of you if what I need/want is possible.
I've searched the forums briefly but I didn't find what I was looking for and I think it is a very specific question anyway.
Currently I'm using the Amazon Kindle app for Android. I like it and possibly I will purchase more books from the Kindle store (and maybe also a Kindle itself) and stick to it for my future reading.
Now, in the past few years I've bought many drm-ed books from other places (e.g. Google Books and some other online stores) and I tried to add them to the Kindle cloud by putting them into Calibre, de-drmize them, convert them to mobi and then upload them as personal documents with the @kindle emails.
Despite some minor conversion defects (which I'd like to see solved) - such as margins/alignment getting screwed up at times - the books do show as personal documents in my Kindle app and the reading point is synced as well as highlights/notes.
So far, so good.
Now, this is the most important part to me, the highlights and the notes.
They get stored and synchronized in the Amazon cloud fine, but I've seen that the uploaded books aren't "linked" to their counterparts in the Kindle store, despite the ISBN and ASIN tags being set to the correct values (I've already read about ASIN, and experimented with mobi tags but with no success).
What I want is that if I upload a no-drm book as a personal document it gets linked to its corresponding Kindle store page, so that if I want to purchase it again from the Kindle store and then delete the document the attached highlights and notes are still stored in the purchased book.
Example:
- I upload Dune by Frank Herbert as a personal document (a previous purchase) by removing the drm in Calibre and then sending it to the @kindle email as mobi. I start reading it and add some highlights/notes.
- This Dune by Frank Herbert document gets associated to the Kindle store page for the book (I mean the book with that ISBN, that particular edition). One day I find that Amazon offers a very strong discount for the book, and I'd like to purchase the book again so not to have it as a personal document anymore but as a proper Amazon book.
- I purchase the book. Now I've got two entries for Dune by Frank Herbert in the app (or device): one is the personal document (the uploaded book), one is the newly-purchased book. If I open the new book - this is what I'd like to see - I find in it all the highlights and notes that I added to the personal document (and this because they are the same book).
All these problems may be summed up with a single question perhaps:
How does Amazon distinguish books when it comes to highlights/notes?
Does it use an ISBN (I'm quite sure it does not)? Does it use an ASIN (I don't think it does either)? Does it use a freshly-created id for the purchase? If so, I think I'm "doomed" and there's no way to achieve what I'd like to achieve here.
Thanks. I hope I made myself clear enough.
(And merry Christmas everybody)
I've searched the forums briefly but I didn't find what I was looking for and I think it is a very specific question anyway.
Currently I'm using the Amazon Kindle app for Android. I like it and possibly I will purchase more books from the Kindle store (and maybe also a Kindle itself) and stick to it for my future reading.
Now, in the past few years I've bought many drm-ed books from other places (e.g. Google Books and some other online stores) and I tried to add them to the Kindle cloud by putting them into Calibre, de-drmize them, convert them to mobi and then upload them as personal documents with the @kindle emails.
Despite some minor conversion defects (which I'd like to see solved) - such as margins/alignment getting screwed up at times - the books do show as personal documents in my Kindle app and the reading point is synced as well as highlights/notes.
So far, so good.
Now, this is the most important part to me, the highlights and the notes.
They get stored and synchronized in the Amazon cloud fine, but I've seen that the uploaded books aren't "linked" to their counterparts in the Kindle store, despite the ISBN and ASIN tags being set to the correct values (I've already read about ASIN, and experimented with mobi tags but with no success).
What I want is that if I upload a no-drm book as a personal document it gets linked to its corresponding Kindle store page, so that if I want to purchase it again from the Kindle store and then delete the document the attached highlights and notes are still stored in the purchased book.
Example:
- I upload Dune by Frank Herbert as a personal document (a previous purchase) by removing the drm in Calibre and then sending it to the @kindle email as mobi. I start reading it and add some highlights/notes.
- This Dune by Frank Herbert document gets associated to the Kindle store page for the book (I mean the book with that ISBN, that particular edition). One day I find that Amazon offers a very strong discount for the book, and I'd like to purchase the book again so not to have it as a personal document anymore but as a proper Amazon book.
- I purchase the book. Now I've got two entries for Dune by Frank Herbert in the app (or device): one is the personal document (the uploaded book), one is the newly-purchased book. If I open the new book - this is what I'd like to see - I find in it all the highlights and notes that I added to the personal document (and this because they are the same book).
All these problems may be summed up with a single question perhaps:
How does Amazon distinguish books when it comes to highlights/notes?
Does it use an ISBN (I'm quite sure it does not)? Does it use an ASIN (I don't think it does either)? Does it use a freshly-created id for the purchase? If so, I think I'm "doomed" and there's no way to achieve what I'd like to achieve here.
Thanks. I hope I made myself clear enough.
(And merry Christmas everybody)