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Ask HN: Is there a way to access kindle content for a speed reading app?

1 pointsby freefranciscoabout 11 years ago
I would like to read my kindle books using a speed reading interface like this http://www.spreeder.com/ but I can't find an API to access the books. I have seen some iphone and android apps that can read content like that, but none of them can access kindle books. Is this possible and nobody has done it yet, or is this forbidden by Amazon's terms of service?

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lutuspabout 11 years ago
Why don&#x27;t you use PDF files, or another e-book format, instead? It&#x27;s likely the target app will accept formats like PDF more readily than Kindle.<p>&gt; Is this possible and nobody has done it yet, or is this forbidden by Amazon&#x27;s terms of service?<p>You mean a special reader that changes the basic page format? That&#x27;s doubtful, and implausible -- I don&#x27;t think Amazon would want to forbid a potentially market-increasing technological advance.<p>It&#x27;s more likely that the reader designers are interested in keeping their media free and open-source, and therefore don&#x27;t support the Kindle file format.
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