Thread: Questions about moving from kindle to sony reader
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Old 09-17-2012, 09:53 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by txgecko View Post
Hmm, that's what I was afraid of. I can indeed export the notes and marks from the kindle. I do it with Calibre, which associates them with the individual book by what appears to be just copying the mbp file into the calibre library. I can see the individual notes and marks in the comments window for each book. I guess the root of the problem is that epub doesn't use .mbp to store its notes, etc, since thats a mobi specific file.

I suppose I should go back to the beginning. How does epub store notes, highlights, etc?
What???
Calibre can store notes from a Kindle?

Holy... I need to test that out!!!
Doh, KT is at home.

Wow, I had no idea. I have been getting the notes off kindle.amazon.com.
But... annotations from Kindle to Calibre? Wow,


Now, regarding SONY and annotations....
I don't have a T2. But, based on everything in the past, don't.
It's clumsy. It's hard to backup. If the book is DRM-protected, you can't export. Even if you strip the DRM, it will be a problem if you bought the book from SONY's store. Notes tend to disappear. Notes get duplicated. With Evernote, you need to upload them one-by-one (I don't have a T2... that's what I read about Evernote...).

And I have never found a way to carry notes over to Calibre from SONYs.
My take is, if you are looking into SONY because of annotations, you will be disappointed. Big time.
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