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Old 09-26-2018, 07:21 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by tomx2 View Post
Thanks,
At least the book file will be named the same and the body of the book will be unchanged (only the comments) so maybe?
It really depends on what changes were in the book. If it was a simple spelling fix, or change to a stylesheet, then any existing annotations will probably work. But, if the changes were more extensive, such as reorganising the internal file structure of the book, then the location references the bookmarks are using have probably change. Automatically fixing those would be a nightmare.
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I'll have to look into what "free format book description" is and where it's located (couldn't find anything with a quick search). I'm going to use Bookari (with epub) as it seems for me to be the best option with all it's features. I'm going to look into some of your suggestions as well. All i really want is for one or two lines of text to be inserted into the epub file (comments), that's all....so they will be part of the epub file and travel with the book (to make it easy when i have to move to a new device, and also automatically readable in both Calibre and Bookari). Thanks again for your time with this, i'll do some more research and post back should i find a solution...or have more questions!
A possibility is the Annotations Plugin. This supports fetching annotations from a device or app into a column in calibre. It formats them with some location information from the device, and can merge annotations from different sources. At the moment it supports Kindles, Kobo's and I'm adding tolino. It also can import from the Goodreader app (a fairly clumsy method). Other apps and devices can be added if the annotations can be seen or exported to a file somehow. It doesn't support sending the annotations back to the device/app, but, if you want to add them to the jacket as others have suggested, you can.
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