Syncing books, highlights, and notes

[ml55]

Two questions:

1. I just got a Kindle Fire, and Amazon (of course) refuses to back-up any highlights or notes from books that one didn't purchase from amazon.com.

Since highlights and notes are the most valuable piece of the book, I need the highlights and notes from all my non-Amazon-purchased books to be backed up somewhere.

I'm wondering if Calibre either backs up highlights and notes currently or plans on doing so in the very near-future.


2. It seems that Calibre doesn't actually "sync" books. They just allow you to manually drag books from your ebook device to your computer and vice versa. Am I missing something here? Why not just create a "sync" button when your device is attached?

Thank you...

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by ml55

I'm wondering if Calibre either backs up highlights and notes currently or plans on doing so in the very near-future.

Not currently and I have no idea if this is on the todo list.

Originally Posted by ml55

2. It seems that Calibre doesn't actually "sync" books. They just allow you to manually drag books from your ebook device to your computer and vice versa. Am I missing something here? Why not just create a "sync" button when your device is attached?

First you should not be dragging books between calibre and your ebook device. Use the send to device button, otherwise the metadata might not be updated and any plugboards you create will not function.

What would you sync? The majority of users don't want their entire collection sync'd to their device. However syncing a smaller user defined subset would be useful. Check out the Reading List plugin it might have what you're looking for.

[cybmole]

i use Sony & have read in other threads that retrieving/backing up notes from that is a nightmare.

The concept of being able to pull notes/annotations into calibre library from e-reader is very attractive , but may not be that easy to code.

I think the showstopper will be how notes are linked to book; i do know that if i edit a book in sigil & resend to sony then the notes no longer sync & I get invalid page errors.

AFAIK these is no spec for how to maintain book notes/annotations & thus no obvious way for these to survive book edits ? ideally the notes would have to be stored "inside" the book

[ml55]

dwanthny, when I said 'sync', I meant highlights and notes since they could be updated often.

That said, I just found a fantastic program (www.klippingskollector.com), but the developer doesn't seem to be active anymore.

A Klippings Kollector / Calibre merger would be huuuge for the reading community.

Just a thought.

[sadievan]

A while back someone posted about a program they made to backup your clippings file from the kindle.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...9&postcount=20

Carol