Hacking On Flarebook

Posted on September 2, 2009 - by jono

With my new toy that I blogged about recently I wanted a nicer interface for getting content on and off the Kindle. I have also been wanting to get back into a little coding, so I thought a fun pet project could be to write a little tool to browse content on the Kindle, ease getting books and MP3s on and off, and be able to grab the highlights, bookmarks and notes you can apply to document and convert them to HTML and other formats.

So, after a few days of hacking I have a very basic incarnation of Flarebook:

It is very primitive, but so far it:

Connects to the Kindle.
Displays books with associated content.
Grabs the highlights, bookmarks and notes, and parses them into a structured format which can be used to generate output formats (currently HTML is the only generated format).

I haven’t put any code online yet because it is so primitive, but when it does a little more I will probably put it on Launchpad.

To create the project I used the excellent Quickly: check it out if you want to kickstart your own pet project.

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September 2, 2009

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Rick Spencer said:

Try $quickly tutorial ubuntu-project, and check out the third page, regarding $quickly package

A tutorial for $quickly share, and $quickly release is coming too. If you have a PPA and gpg keys set up, they should just work.
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September 2, 2009

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mrben said:

Presumably the page 3 tab is for the vast collection of pictures of “top british totty” you have?
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September 2, 2009

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Darren said:

Have your tried Calibre? It manages Kindle content quite well.
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September 2, 2009

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Anders said:

Looks much better than facebook!
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September 6, 2009

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Rick Spencer said:

Jono -

How about a feature where it automatically microblogs when you add stuff to it? A simply call dbus call to gwibber I think …

Cheers, Rick
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Wow! This is great info, am intrested in it… gr8 sh!t boy
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