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Originally Posted by =X=
Amazon just did this for convenience. It duplicates the highlights and bookmarks and places it in one text file. It was designed to allow people to get content off of the Kindle for reports, quotes, and such. The original date is stored in an MDP file. (If you manually edit the txt file you will see those annotations still exist in your book.)
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Thank you, X, for clarifying this. I saw the .mdp files but have not tried to open them on my Mac.
The User's Guide points to the "My Clippings" file as the place where we will find our notes if we want to export them to our computers.
The notes that I have made on the Google Books 1828 novel display as superscript numbers once I have made them. Clicking on the number pulls up the note I wrote, and then I can edit the note as well. There is a way to display all the notes I've made on the PDF at once, but this displays each note as attached to the first three lines of text in the Google cover page.
On the Kindle, from the menu inside the PDF, "View My Notes . . .", I then see
Showing all 184 Marks & Notes
Page 18
Thisisadigitalcopyofabookthatwaspreservedforgenera tion
tomaketheworld'sbooksdiscoverableonline. etc etc
with my note at the bottom in a bubble.
One more detail about adding notes to this kind of PDF file -- when you move the insertion point on the page, the Kindle does not always recognize every white space between words as a possible insertion point. On same pages it does, but on others it will only allow me to insert a note in two or three random spaces on the half page I'm viewing.
All in all, I am pleased with the experience of reading the novel on the Kindle and like the note-making functions. Maybe I should have had higher expectations!
P.S. Experimenting further with the "My Clippings" file & annotations from multiple books, I am not sure what is the way they are collated together. That stretch by page number may have been a coincidence. Most of the notes are in chronological order but not all. Either way, it is a raw lumping together.