2015-01-30 22:02:18 +00:00
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[[!meta title="How to extract your Amazon ebooks from the Android Kindle App"]]
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## TL;DR
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The ebooks of the Amazon Kindle app can be found on your
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Android phone in PRC format below the folder
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***/data/media/0/Android/data/com.amazon.kindle/files/***.
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## Download the books
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To be able to extract your books from your Android phone, you need to
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synchronise the books first, so they are available on your device.
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To ensure they are local. turn of all network connections
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(wifi, mobile data) and try to read them.
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## Finding the files
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At first I guessed the files I was looking for may be
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ending in ***.azw***. Looking for these files, however
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did not reveal any file.
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My second guess was to look for amazon files or folder
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named amazon:
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% find / -name \*amazon\* 2>/dev/null
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I found **/data/data/com.amazon.kindle**, with the following content:
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% ls
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app_com.amazon.device.syncHIGH app_metricsNORMAL databases
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app_com.amazon.device.syncNORMAL app_web_cache files
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app_dex app_web_database lib
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app_dexopt app_webview shared_prefs
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app_metricsHIGH cache
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Looking for books in this directory wasn't successful.
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However, the databases directory looked interesting.
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% cd databases
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% grep -ri mybookname *
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Binary file databases/kindle_library.db matches
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Binary file databases/kindle_library.db-journal matches
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I used sqlite to have a look at the database:
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% sqlite3 kindle_library.db
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sqlite> .schema
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...
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This revealed one interesting table named ***LocalContent***.
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Looking at it closer:
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sqlite> select * from LocalContent;
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This revealed the emulated path
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***/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.amazon.kindle/files/***
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and referenced ***.prc*** files.
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I looked for them in the filesystem using ...
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% find / -name \*.prc 2>/dev/null
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... and found my books!
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2015-01-30 22:03:51 +00:00
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To extract the ebooks to your computer, you can use any file copy program.
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2015-01-30 22:02:18 +00:00
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The ***rsync*** utility however is suited for it very well, as it can
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(re-)sychronise the whole folder:
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% rsync -av /data/media/0/Android/data/com.amazon.kindle/files/ mycomputer:mybooks/
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[[!tag amazon android kindle ebook hack]]
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