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davidfor · 02-15-2015, 08:05 AM

That's a Python script to read the annotations database on the Nook and dump out a file with lines with the page number, highlighted text and the note. It creates one file per book.

That gives a lot of clues as to what is needed. Plus, someone in the past has sent me some parts of the database from a Nook. But, it was incomplete. It had the annotations database, which includes a path to the book, but no details of the book. Without this, I don't have a way to connect the annotation pulled from the database to the book in the calibre library.

What I need to to try this is the full database, or some other way to connect the books and annotations together. If I can get that, and someone willing to test the code, I can try and create the code to read the annotations from the Nook.

The other thing I am not sure of is access to the database. That script appears to be using adb to copy to database to a temporary file and then run the rest from there. I thought that the Nooks were mounted as a mass storage device and hence the database and books were accessible that way. If it isn't, that might complicate things.

02-15-2015, 08:05 AM	#133
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	That's a Python script to read the annotations database on the Nook and dump out a file with lines with the page number, highlighted text and the note. It creates one file per book. That gives a lot of clues as to what is needed. Plus, someone in the past has sent me some parts of the database from a Nook. But, it was incomplete. It had the annotations database, which includes a path to the book, but no details of the book. Without this, I don't have a way to connect the annotation pulled from the database to the book in the calibre library. What I need to to try this is the full database, or some other way to connect the books and annotations together. If I can get that, and someone willing to test the code, I can try and create the code to read the annotations from the Nook. The other thing I am not sure of is access to the database. That script appears to be using adb to copy to database to a temporary file and then run the rest from there. I thought that the Nooks were mounted as a mass storage device and hence the database and books were accessible that way. If it isn't, that might complicate things.