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jonie · 03-17-2018, 08:33 PM

Hello there.

I am using the kindle to read scientific papers and do a lot of highlights. I intended to use Calibre and the annotations plugin for retrieval of those. I recently realized that highlights in personal pdf files are neither saved to the Myclippings.txt file nor can they be uploaded or bulk shared to my local amazon account (I would prefer a calibre solution anyway).
Every python and java script I found would do the same, extract the myClippings.txt.
However, it seems that the notes and highlights for personal pdfs are saved as pointers (i hope this is the right expression ?) in the .str folder in a .pds or .pdt binary file. Those however are a complete enigma to me.
Does anyone know if it is possible to extract the information with calibre?

The only solution that I could come up with so far would be setting up a facebook account and sharing each highlight individually (= tapping on each highlighted line in each book on the paperwhite) and then try to retrieve all posts from that account with some APU. ... rather discouraging.
Any idea or help would be greatly appreciated.

03-17-2018, 08:33 PM	#1
jonie Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2018 Device: kindle paperwhite	extract or export annotation or highlight from personal PDF kindle Hello there. I am using the kindle to read scientific papers and do a lot of highlights. I intended to use Calibre and the annotations plugin for retrieval of those. I recently realized that highlights in personal pdf files are neither saved to the Myclippings.txt file nor can they be uploaded or bulk shared to my local amazon account (I would prefer a calibre solution anyway). Every python and java script I found would do the same, extract the myClippings.txt. However, it seems that the notes and highlights for personal pdfs are saved as pointers (i hope this is the right expression ?) in the .str folder in a .pds or .pdt binary file. Those however are a complete enigma to me. Does anyone know if it is possible to extract the information with calibre? The only solution that I could come up with so far would be setting up a facebook account and sharing each highlight individually (= tapping on each highlighted line in each book on the paperwhite) and then try to retrieve all posts from that account with some APU. ... rather discouraging. Any idea or help would be greatly appreciated.