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Originally Posted by BookCat
I can't get this to work. The book is in txt format. I put it into Calibre, had my paperwhite hooked up to the computer via usb, and tried to get annotations. A box flashed up, but was gone too quickly for me to see what it said. Nothing appeared in Calibre. I've tried this with several books, with the same result. I've even tried importing my clippings, but can't do anything with them.
How is the annotations plugin supposed to work?
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Firstly, you need to configure the plugin. It will probably work without changing the configuration, but, the annotations will be added to the comments field. I've never liked that.
Then, connect the device and when the device jobs are finished running, select a book in the library list that is on the device. Then select the option in the Annotations plugin button to fetch annotations from the Kindle device. It should read the clippings file, match all the books in the file to those on the device and in the library and present a list of books with the number of annotations found. I can't think of what it does if it doesn't find any matches, but it should display a message.
The book the annotations are for must be both on the device and in the calibre library. The matching between the clippings file and the books is based on the title and author. If these have changed, the match won't happen.
But, I think the problem is that this is a text file. Looking at the code, it is only looking at the following formats: azw, azw1, azw3, kfx, mobi. It doesn't support TXT files on Kindles. Can you add annotations to TXT files on a Kindle? If so, I can add the support. But, it would be quicker to send the book to the device as one of the above formats and try again.
And you might want to try some annotations in another book and see what they look like when fetched. That's just in case it isn't suitable for what you want. And take a backup of the clippings file just in case.