Portrait of an Artist

Scrape quotes taken on a Kindle device into a SQLite database for display and analysis.

Setup

Get the quotes out of your Kindle

Quotes will be stored in a raw text file on your Kindle under /documents/My Clippings.txt
A bash one liner is presented below; a more complicated script multi_kindle_scrape.sh is available for automatically managing quotes from multiple kindles.

cp /media/$USER/Kindle/documents/My\ Clippings.txt all_kindle_notes.txt

Create a database

Parse quotes and create a database with scrape_quotes.py

From here you can use boilerplate scripts in /data for analysis, and set up an epaper device to display quotes (best used with cron), see /rpi/display_quotes.py for more information.

TODO

Add support for ESP8266 to display quotes, Waveshare devices have support for these, but I need to figure out memory buffers to support the relatively large images.