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Old 11-17-2010, 09:01 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm afraid not. Positions count is in units of 128 bytes in the compressed file.

It's a little like asking "how can I tell, from my typewritten manuscript, which page of the printed book a given word is going to end up on?". The answer is "you can't, and why would you want to?".
I already gave up. Regarding your question "why would I want to":

I would like to get a list of my highlights grouped under the corresponding chapter title. So if I highlight the most important passages of a book, I can could automatically get a meaningfull summary of the book once I am done. Right now I just get an unsorted collection of highlights in the myclipping file. So my idea was to extract chapter names and positions from the mobi file and to write a small script that would to the chapter grouping using the positions stored in the myclippings file.

But I do not see a way of doing this ...
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