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domukas00 · 06-06-2017, 06:05 AM

Hello,

Recently I bought kindle PW3 and realized that highlights and notes are synced on the cloud only for the books purchased from the amazon. Since mainly all my books are various side loaded documents I really need to be able to back up all books and documents with highlights and notes in case my kindle stops working, so I could transfer them to new device.

After searching the internet I have found that with older kindles it was possible just to save .mbp files to have backups of highlights and notes but I can't find any .mbp file on my device.
I see that for every individual book there is a folder named accordingly (ex. Book_TSAJ7HUBKCSZG5WYEOETHIMCL6H3EMZY.sdr) with different file types inside: for some books there are two files .azf3f and .azf3r, for others .pds and .pdt or just one file .apnx.

So, would it be possible to backup all highlights and notes by saving these folders to my PC?

Also, is there a plugin for Calibre that could backup highlights automatically (not just myclippings.txt)?

If it's not possible, maybe anyone could recommend me any other e book reader for that matter?

06-06-2017, 06:05 AM	#1
domukas00 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2017 Device: Kindle Paper White 3	Kindle PW3 highlights backup Hello, Recently I bought kindle PW3 and realized that highlights and notes are synced on the cloud only for the books purchased from the amazon. Since mainly all my books are various side loaded documents I really need to be able to back up all books and documents with highlights and notes in case my kindle stops working, so I could transfer them to new device. After searching the internet I have found that with older kindles it was possible just to save .mbp files to have backups of highlights and notes but I can't find any .mbp file on my device. I see that for every individual book there is a folder named accordingly (ex. Book_TSAJ7HUBKCSZG5WYEOETHIMCL6H3EMZY.sdr) with different file types inside: for some books there are two files .azf3f and .azf3r, for others .pds and .pdt or just one file .apnx. So, would it be possible to backup all highlights and notes by saving these folders to my PC? Also, is there a plugin for Calibre that could backup highlights automatically (not just myclippings.txt)? If it's not possible, maybe anyone could recommend me any other e book reader for that matter?