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Old 09-14-2015, 11:20 PM   #2
tomsem
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Originally Posted by sun surfer View Post
-Is "My Clippings" completely separate from the notes (note/highlight/bookmark) files associated with each book? I.e. can I edit the My Clippings file, or even completely remove notes from one book on the file, and the actual notes on the book will still be fine regardless?

-If I delete a (calibre AZW3 or MOBI, sometimes originally bought from Amazon and sometimes not) book from the Voyage, will the notes file still be there? I.e. if, later on, I add the book back to the Voyage, will the notes show then?
Yes. My Clippings is basically a log file of the annotations you make on the device. It grows and grows and grows as you annotate. You can edit it, or even delete it, but it has no effect on the individual book annotations, which are independent. If you side load books, and annotate them, My Clippings is the ONLY place to find your annotations later if you delete the book, since these do not sync to the cloud. If you make a lot of annotations, it's a good idea to delete My Clippings once in awhile to recover storage and performance (back it up first if you care about what is in there). The larger it gets, the more it can affect performance, as it is re-indexed every time you add a new annotation. It at least used to be the case that adding annotations would get slower and slower as the file grew.

Personally I'd rather see an 'export annotations' feature similar to what Google Play Books does. My Clippings is a hack, but one which people have come to expect and rely on. For Amazon content, you can use a service like clippings.io to get more convenient access to your annotations.
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