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Originally Posted by davidfor
There is no code in calibre that I know of to strip the annotations from the comments when a book is sent sent to the device.
And the experiments I have done show that the annotations are sent.
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I didn't explained very well how I did and what happened. I do use the Kobo utility Update metadata in device function when updating the synopis field for the book on the device with the synopsis text in the comment field.
So, if I have placed different text types in the comment field and there are no tags to separate the text types, I do understand that alla text in the comment field will be copied to the synopsis field for the book on the device.
What is strange, however, is that only for one of the books with both synopsis text and annotation text in the comment field, both texts were copied into the synopsis field. For the rest of the books with both synopsis text and annotation text in the comment field, only the synopsis text was copied into the synopsis field. So for all but one book the Kobo utility Update metadata function managed to separate which text to transfer to synopsis field.
I'm only using the Update metadata function for the synopsis text in the comment field, not the annotations stored there. The annotations are only imported to the comment field with the Annotation program for easy reading after finishing the book, since the actual annotations is mixed with code in the annotation file in the DE folder on the device. The device itself reads the annotations for the specific book from the annotation file in the Digital Edition folder on the device. I generally just backup annotations by simply copy the whole DE folder, but I don't read them. That works great.
I download synopsis text via Calibre Download metadata function (or copy/pasted from site) and then strip the text in the comment field from all fomatting code. Then I just choose H3 formatting for bigger text, since the font size for the text in the synopsis field for the book on the device can't be changed. But the annotation text has a lot of code around every annotation.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
If the annotations are not going to the device as part of the comments, it probably means you are resending the books.
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Actually I do use the Update metadata on device function for
all books when updating with synopsis text. Thats why it so strange that for one book both types of texts were sent to the synopsis field on the device, but for the rest only the synopsis text was sent and not the annotation text.
So, my conclusion is that between the book where both text types were sent and the other books were only the the synpsis text was sent, there must some sort of difference in the comment field codes/tags. Since I used the same feautures to download synopsis (Calibre Download metadata), used the same formatting and used the same function to update the device synopsis field (Kobo Ut. Update metadata/synopsis).
I will do some more testing and read your answer more carefully, just thought there were some easy answer. Is there any other way of having easy access and easy readability of the annotations on the computer for a book after reading it?
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