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Old 08-08-2018, 10:53 PM   #539
davidfor
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Originally Posted by richo View Post
This is exactly the reason I moved to KOReader to read my books. And this app can run on many eInk devices and Android as well. Highlights there are stored simple. There is even sw to get them out easily (KoHighlights). I am keeping my books in calibre.

Now searching for a way to merge koreader higlights using calibre if same book is read on different devices. Or moved to and from same device and re-re-read after some time.
In that case, I would actually talk to the KOReader developers. If they have an export function for the annotations, they probably have an import, and adding a merge function to that makes sense. Or export and merge would work as well.

For storing the annotations, if they are a file, you can add them to calibre. You might need to tweak the extension so that they don't get treated as a book of some sort. By that I mean if the export produced an HTML file, then calibre has some handling for this and can do things like convert to another format. In this case, you wouldn't want to do that. But, if it has some other extension, calibre will track the file and keep it with the actual book.

This plugin does do some merging of annotations between different devices. But, the annotations are not stored in a way that it is possible to send back to a device and have them used there. If you want to accumulate them to look at, it could be used. But, it needs someone to write the code to read the KOReader annotations. That isn't something I'm currently interested in doing, but if someone wants to do it, I'll be happy to answer any questions and add the code to the plugin.
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