Thread: Reader with good annotations support?
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Old 04-14-2016, 08:00 PM   #3
davidfor
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From what I can tell, there are no ereaders that match your requirements for annotations. Most seem to have some annotation support. Making annotations seem to be OK and the problems are related to the hardware. I personally don't like making long annotations because the on-screen keyboard is horrible.

Syncing between device/apps has different support. Kindle supports everything. Kobo only syncs for books bought from them and downloaded from the server. Sideloaded books support annotations, but they stay on the device.

Exporting annotations is definitely an afterthought. I don't think any current does. The Sony's had something, but I have never used one and don't know anything about it. Kobo have had a hidden option to do it for a while, but it is a very simplistic text dump.

There are some third party tools. I maintain the Annotations plugin for calibre. This supports fetching annotations from Kobo and Kindle e-ink devices plus a couple of apps. This can be extended to other devices/apps, but no-one has been interested. The annotations are put into a column in calibre.

There are some other tools floating around here. At least two for the Kobo's, but I don't pay enough attention to the other devices to know what is there.

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Originally Posted by JackTaylor View Post
I mostly read drm-free epubs, email them to amazon so they're all synced between my ipod and kindle, make lots of highlights, then export the notes by extracting the .mbps. But if I could get an e-reader that let you properly export stuff, I don't care about sync at all.
You have me interested here. The Annotations plugin reads the "MyClippings.txt" file. There were some suggestions to read the .mbps, but I couldn't find any useful information on it. Any chance of seeing what you have to do it? Even better is if you wanted to update the Kindle support that is in the Annotations plugin
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The best I've found is the Kobo Aura H20, but apparently pdf support is horrible. How's the rest of the UI? Is exporting notes easy? I heard you can install Koreader, but I only found one video for it's PDF features. How is Koreader with regular books?
I don't think that Kobo's PDF support is horrible. It seems to do an excellent job of rendering the pages. But, for big complex PDF's, it's slow. Now, the navigation, yes, that is horrible. If you need to zoom and change pages, that can get painful.

I can't comment much on Koreader, as I don't use it. From comments in the forums, the PDF handling is better. I don't know about the annotations support.
Last edited by davidfor; 04-14-2016 at 08:00 PM. Reason: Fixed quoting.
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