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Originally Posted by txgecko
... notes and highlights: One of the main draws of the Sony Reader is that it appears to be much easier to take notes with than the rather clumsy keyboard on the kindle. I also see buzz about evernote supposedly making it so very easy to sync notes, etc. Is it possible to take the notes I have in my kindle books, from either the my clippings file or the .mbp file and import them to the Reader? For instance, if I have a nice, DRM-free mobi book from Gutenberg that I've marked up in my kindle, is there any way, once I've converted the mobi, to 'attach' those notes and highlights to the epub I'd have on the Reader?
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Originally Posted by txgecko
... I do a lot of reading for classes and a book club on it, notes are something I use a lot.
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I've been giving this more thought. Again, I don't know how Kindle works, so I can't compare the two, but I can offer a few insights on how Evernote works on the T2:
* T2 has an Evernote app that allows you to upload book highlights and notes to Evernote. (Highlights on DRMed books are limited to 140 characters; for DRM-free books I've uploaded up to 2,200 characters.) Once you've uploaded your highlights/notes, when you go to Evernote (web or desktop app), each highlight/note will appear as a separate item. From there, you can combine multiple items into a single item.
* The T2 Evernote app also allows you to download items from Evernote to your T2. These items show up on your Evernote bookshelf (which is separate from your Books bookshelf).
* As you probably know, if you're switching from Kindle to Sony, you're going to have to convert all your Kindle books to epub. I'm pretty sure your notes and highlights will not survive the conversion process, and I'm assuming you will export your notes/highlights before you convert. If you can combine all your notes/highlights into a single document and upload them to Evernote, you will be able download that single document from Evernote to the T2. This document will show up on your Evernote bookshelf, and it will be separate from the ebook. As far as I can tell, you can't use Evernote to attach or re-insert notes back into the book that they came from. The notes and book will end up as two separate files on two separate bookshelves (and switching between the two will be a little clunky).
There may be other options and hacks to preserve Kindle notes/highlights, but as far as I can tell, going from one to the other will be awkard as far as preserving notes/highlights go.