[Slingsby]

I've been annotating PDF files (from Google Books). All the notes go into a text file called "My Clippings." This displays all the notes, sorted by page number, in this format:

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[Name of PDF file] (Author's name, pulled from PDF metadata I guess])
- Note Page 20 | Added on Thursday, August 26, 2010, 10:39 PM

here is the text of my note
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next note in same title / page date // note format

It is easy to copy the notes to my computer when the Kindle is on the USB cable & mounted as a drive on my desktop.

Note the PDF note is keyed only to the page number -- the machine can't get the text from the PDF images. As I have become aware of this, I have been developing the habit of making the notes in complete sentences & with whatever information I would need to understand the note w/o being able to view the text that inspired it.

Also curious is all the notes are sorted by page number, regardless of work. I just brought over a week's worth of notes and it is amusing to see notes for various works all sorted together by page number (and not sorted by work, then page number). In other words, in the "My Clippings" file a note on Book A for page 85 and a note on Book for page 85 are in sequence, just before a note on A for page 86.

I am sure I could re-sort them by pasting the text file into Excel, if that is ever necessary.

Hope this answers your question.