Kindle Utils ============ Various utilities for doing things with a Kindle. * log_parser.py: Parse a kindle logfile, or a directory of log files and track the use of the kindle. Power states and book statistics are tracked. * book_stats.py: Print a report on book reading time, based on the statistics collected by log_parser.py. * mobibook.py: Parse and return the Mobi and EXTH metadata in a mobibook file. * apnx_parser.py: Parse and return the page number/position information in a Kindle Page Number Sidecar (.apnx) binary file. * fetch-logs: Shell script to assist in pulling log files off the Kindle. How to Use ---------- You need a jailbroken Kindle with SSH access (either via usbnet, or wifi). Once you've got one of those, use the fetch-logs script to pull logs from your Kindle into a local directory, and then run kindle-stats.py pointing it at the directory containing the logs. Voila. Make sure you run fetch-logs regularly enough that you don't lose any logfiles (once a week seems sufficient) and you've got all you need to calculate fairly accurate stats about your reading habits. The script will also attempt to read titles and page information from the actual book files if it can find them, this makes the output much more useful that just looking at a list of ASINs and Kindle positions. By default, the script will expect to find the books at /media/Kindle/documents, which is where a Kindle seems to appear when connected via USB on a recent Ubuntu system. Alternatively, you could manually copy the books to a local directory on your computer and point the script at that directory with -b. This can be done over the wifi, so you don't need to mess around with USB, and also gives you a backup of your books on your own computer, incase Amazon ever decides to delete them off your Kindle! e.g (assuming USB connection). $ mkdir kindle-logs $ cd kindle-logs $ fetch-logs . $ book_stats.py . B000FC1PJI: Quicksilver: Read 1 times. Last Finished: Fri Mar 16 18:30:57 2012 - Tue Feb 21 11:06:24 2012 => Fri Mar 16 18:30:57 2012. Reading time 19 hours, 29 mins (p9 => p914) ... Read 51 books in total. 9 days, 2 hours, 29 mins of reading time Alternatively (if you've copied the books locally): $ book_stats.py -b /path/to/books .