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Kindle: View notes/clippings on your PC

View your notes/clippings on your computer

  • Visit http://kindle.amazon.com and LogIn
  • Select the book
  • on the right side of screen you will see something like:
    You have 0 highlighted passages
    You have 1 note

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The manual way…

  • connect your Kindle to your computer via USB (mass storage)
  • in /documents on your Kindle you will find a file named My_clippings.txt

 

Amazon Kindle & Linux… and how to remove DRM

Kindle and Linux

There are useful tools around to handle your Amazon Kindle:

  • calibre – a nice piece of software to manage your books (library) on your kindle. This tool also converts and sends books to your device. The all in one solution. It is extremely expendable with Plug-Ins (also for removing DRM)
  • ebook-convert and other commandline-tools (gets installed with calibre)
    example: ebook-convert filename.cbz filename.epub

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Removing DRM with Python tool

  1.  What you need: Python on your system – just try “python” in CLI. If Python is missing in your distro install it – e.g. in Ubuntu by “sudo apt-get install python”
  2. The MobiDeDRM Scripts – http://nyquil.org/uploads/MobiDeDRM.zip
  3. If you buy a book from Amazon you normally get a “Book.azw”-File…
  4. … the next steps:
  • python kindlepid.py XXXXXXXXXXX” where XXXXXXXXXXXX is your 16-character Serial (get your serial from your Kindle Systeminformation – Settings/Device information). The Terminal window will return something like Mobipocked PID for Kindle serial# XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is Z1QFCDQ*74. That “Z1QFCDQ*74” string is what you need.

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  • Now all you have to do to remove the DRM from the .AZW file is:
    python mobidedrm.py Book-Title.azw Book-Title.mobi YourMobiPocketKEY
    In a minute or so you should have a DRM-free MobiPocket book you can later convert in any other format you like. If that doesn’t work, try
    python mobidedrm2.py Book-Title.azw Book-Title.mobi YourMobiPocketKEY

 

Sources and more information:

  • https://www.facebook.com/notes/unix/remove-drm-from-amazon-kindles-ebooks-using-linux/293892687293406
  • http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/
  • http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Toolbox-E-Book-Verwaltung-mit-Calibre-2038084.html

 

Sources for free eBooks

  • http://www.gutenberg.org/
  • Torrent

Installation von OwnCloud 5 auf domainGo Webspace (Power)

 

  • Voraussetzung: Webspace mit PHP und MySQL (Optional: SQLite) – zB Domaingo Power-Pakete
  • Download des WebInstall-Scripts von http://owncloud.org/install/
  • Kopieren des Scripts auf den Webspace – ACHTUNG: Vor dem Ausführen (http://URL/setup-owncloud.php) muss bei Domaingo auf die ZIP-Library in einem php.ini verwiesen werden (sonst bricht die Installation ab).
  • php.ini mit dem folgende Inhalt (ersten beiden Zeilen) in den Webspace zum setup-owncloud.php kopieren:

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Diese beiden Files sind dann am Webspace:

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  • Anschließend das Script ausführen: http://yourURL/setup-owncloud.php
  • Nun kann ein User und die Datenbank angelegt werden (SQLite!)
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  • Nach der Grundinstallation empfiehlt es sich die php.ini ins Installationsverzeichnis am Webserver zu kopieren und um die Zeilen im Screenshot zu ergänzen. Achtung: Die upload_size je nach Konfiguration des Webservers einstellen (–> phpinfo() )

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