Support for Kindle Scribe

[tomsem]

Scribe of course uses MTP (media transfer protocol). Calibre currently does not support copying thumbnails for it.

There are some C libraries (check calibre source code for example), perhaps you could call those from Go.

[rupor-github]

I am watching this closely, but presently I do not think I am ready to implement MTP support the way coherent with overall project. The way MTP is supposed to be used on different platforms is really very different. It impossible to cleanly incorporate in a portable way (or at least I do not see how yet). Using separate tool to copy files via MTP looks like a better option at the moment.

[tomsem]

I think it is reasonable to guess that all future Kindles will use MTP. Surely there will be a 7.8/8" Kindle this year? With buttons?

When I started looking into how to write code to work with it I was surprised that there is no Python 3 library that works with it (there is one for Python 2 but nobody has ported it and I haven't attempted to do so yet). Even with the example of calibre, I haven't worked out how to do it in Python in a standalone way, and I have more investigation to figure out how to write a script that runs in calibre's Python environment so it can leverage its MTP interface.

On Windows, you can use PowerShell commands to automate Windows Explorer, on Mac/LInux there is a libmtp command line tool you can install with HomeBrew. I will probably wind up writing some code to use such shell commands until I have a better tasting solution.

I don't side load to Kindle much myself (there are few advantages to doing that versus just using Send To Kindle), and if I did, I probably would not care that much about thumbnail images.

But I want do do some things with Notebooks and need a way to transfer them back and forth and automate everything.