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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
I have no idea how the "experimental method" is employed.
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It is an option on one of the device related buttons when a device is connected. For supported devices, it finds all annotations and adds them to the comments field. I think only Kindles and Kobo devices are supported.
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On Kobo I always used the Kobo Utilites which puts a pop up window. I think it's an Annotations Plug in (it seems to do the same with Kobo H2O as it does with Kindle PW3. It puts the selected (it pops up a window with list of books, doesn't seem to allow book selection in advance) annotation in my custom column, in side pane under cover and in the 2nd custom metadata tab if you go edit metadata.
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The Annotations plugin supports both Kindles and Kobo devices. Again, it retrieves all annotations from the device for books in the calibre library. But, once you have the list of books with annotations, you can choose not to import some of them. Where the annotations are put is configurable. As is some of the layout for how of the stored annotations.
For Kindles, the Annotations plugin reads the My Clippings.txt from the device. It parses this to get the details. The file isn't perfect and sometimes doesn't include all the details properly. Or it is possible that the exact layout has changed. I haven't had any reports of problems suggesting that there has been a change.
For your example, the word "Unknown" should be where the location of the annotation in the book. From memory, there are several ways this is stored by Kindles. "Unknown" is used if this is missing or can't be determined. If this isn't the case in the "My Clippings.txt", I need to see the file and possibly a debug log.
For the layout, you can change that in the configuration for the plugin.