Thread: Merge notes into epub file?
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Old 07-05-2017, 08:12 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Not in the least.
I'm with you. I was never in the habit of writing in paper books, and I haven't felt the need for any annotations that aren't short term reminders of things to fix or look up when near a computer.

But...

If we are talking epub, ADE has an annotations file. It is XML and includes references to the location in the epub for the annotations. The Kobo ereaders also use these for epubs (plus a database). As an experiment, and with a bit of fiddling, I have moved one of these between ADE on the PC and one of my Kobos. It was a while ago, so I'm not sure if it would be practical to automate this. But, generating the file for any other format, would be hard. As would mapping from annotations for a Kindle to an epub.

The other problem with this is that ADE based readers/apps would be the only ones that support the files. Reading them for the calibre view probably wouldn't be hard, but the viewer doesn't have good enough support for annotations for this to be worth it.
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