Open KnowTheFuture opened 2 years ago
I'd like to see all of my Kindle books, not just the ones with highlights
This plugin currently has two sources to pull data from:
My Clippings.txt
file on your KindleThese two sources will only display books that have highlights. Meaning, that a book that you've purchased or loaded will not be surfaced in these sources until you make one highlight.
One solution to work around this is to add a new optional connection to your Goodreads account if you have one. If you've this service before, you know that it will list all the books that you've marked as read (any other categories such as want to read).
I can ask some more questions to better understand your idea:
Why do you want to have books that you've read but haven't highlighted any clippings in your Obsidian vault? I am curious to learn about what use case you have for knowing such titles.
If you've purchased a book from Amazon (e.g. Outliers, The Stand), can you be more specific about which meta data on the Amazon pages you wanted the plugin to import? Some screenshots would be great.
Can you walk me through one manual example of how you pulled all the data for one of your books. It would help me understand if any of the steps that you've taken can be automated.
It is possible that some aspects of your request falls out of the scope of this plugin (e.g. building the table of contents of your books). Would you consider using another plugin such as Dataview with Kindle Highlights?
I can ask some more questions to better understand your idea:
- Why do you want to have books that you've read but haven't highlighted any clippings in your Obsidian vault? I am curious to learn about what use case you have for knowing such titles. Obsidian is about seeing and making connections.
Let's say I have 10 books about a topic (ex. cooking, science, history), but I've only read and highlighted 2 - what about the other 8? They are in my library, but if I am not aware of them, or able to see their overlap or differences. For example, if I have 10 books on history; 5 might be books on European History, 5 might be on Middle Eastern history, but if I have only noted 1 on European history and 1 on Middle Eastern history, I'd like to be aware that I have other books that cover the topic.
Ideally, I'd like to see the book categories imported as tags or pages automatically - these are several usable examples
This example is a bit simple - there is only one category: Marketing
Unfortunately, this does not tell me anything about the book: Fiction, Fantasy, Virus, Plague, Pandemic
- Can you walk me through one manual example of how you pulled all the data for one of your books. It would help me understand if any of the steps that you've taken can be automated.
- It is possible that some aspects of your request falls out of the scope of this plugin (e.g. building the table of contents of your books). Would you consider using another plugin such as Dataview with Kindle Highlights?
Yes, I am still early in my Obsidian journey.
First posted here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/kindle-highlights-plugin-adding-tags-from-isbn-or-amazon-categories/41160
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'd like to see all of my Kindle books, not just the ones with highlights and then be able to group them into categories and subcategories AND use existing category information, either from Amazon (Category, Sub-Category) and/or the ISBN entry - either as a tag and/or a page connection.
Describe the solution you'd like A clear and concise description of what you want to happen.
Clicking on the Amazon reference link displays the category and sub-category at the top of the page.
I'd like to streamline this process, so it is done automatically.
Describe alternatives you've considered 0 - For all books, I am adding a highlight to every book in my collection
For Tags and Categorization
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