How to access Kindle Highlights (API?)

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Johnny Appal picture Johnny Appal · Mar 21, 2011 · Viewed 11.3k times · Source

I want to make a site that lets you follow other people Kindle Highlights. Is this possible Is there some sort of Kindle Highlights API?

Thanks.

Answer

Jeff picture Jeff · Apr 1, 2011

THis would be an amazing web service. Amazon does not offer an api for this. You can read public highlights online at kindle.amazon.com, however, you cannot integrate any public highlights into your apps via an API yet. It seems that the new Kindle Developers Kit is purely for creating apps on the kindle and there is not even an api method for accessing public highlights in this kdk.

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