Where does Chrome stores offline books downloaded using Amazon-Cloud Extension on Windows 7?

Question

I've downloaded from Amazon a few books using the Chrome Cloud Reader extension.

The only possible way to view those books is from inside the Chrome Reader extension , and let's be frank , it's pretty much a very annoying extension .

I want to view those books (I guess .mobi files) in my own viewer (Calibre) , but I can't find the books that chrome downloaded (I'm working offline so I downloaded the books , but they're invisible) .

Where is Chrome storing those offline books?

Repertory

This answer provides some great insight too: askubuntu.com/a/1012193/327339 – Brocket

Answer 1

So this doesn't directly answer your question, but if you're trying to find the .mobi files for use with Calibre, I would just download the Kindle for PC application and find the downloaded files for importing into Calibre.

They're stored in...

• Windows: Libraries/Documents/My Kindle Content
• macOS: ~/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content

Overeager

Great answer , this program stores the downloaded files in Libraries/Documents/My Kindle Content . – Repertory

yet some ebooks - like comics for instance - are restricted to tablet and chrome cloud reader extension. so this doesn't really like a valid solution for me. – Coplanar

Currently Amazon provides platform-based links only. Thus, it's not possible to download the K4PC-App on a Linux machine. – Crankpin

Answer 2

I think I've found where it stores them, but you won't like it.

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\databases\https_read.amazon.com_0

Contains a couple of files that don't have file extensions. They are SQLite 3 files. If you keep track of the file size and last edited time when you download a book, it gets bigger and is modified at the same time. Having potentially found the book, I still didn't get anywhere. Looking at the database in Sqlite Browser, it seems that the books are broken apart into thousands of fragments.

Permittivity

Yes, they seem to have moved the files to the location that Boon shows above. I can't do anything with it either, although somebody on GitHub has a script they claim will retrieve the book text as html. I haven't tried it, I'm not sure how to use it. gist.github.com/yangchenyun/a1c123935d82f5e25d57 – Tactful

@jeramytownsley the github script works using nodejs as per this answer – Brutality