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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader

the annotation import plugin only shows first location number, not page or range.

Yes, you are right, it is only taking one of the location descriptions. I think there is a situation where it uses the page number if there is no location number. And yes, it just uses the start location from the range. This is consistent with the other devices and apps the plugin can fetch annotations from. And I'm not sure if there is an actual advantage in having the end of the range.

Snippet from "my clippings.txt"

Séadna, Kevin, Órlaith, Shoshanna Muirí, Beth and her
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- Your Highlight on page 193 | location 2957-2958 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 02:49:44

Beth and her husband Niall. Anrhi
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- Your Note on page 193 | location 2958 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 02:50:24

Niall or Brian?
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- Your Highlight on page 194 | location 2960-2961 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 02:51:02

Órlaith’s parents, Danny and Laragh. The two older
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- Your Note on page 194 | location 2961 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 02:51:50

De two older
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- Your Highlight on page 194 | location 2960-2961 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 02:51:50

The two older
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- Your Highlight on page 194 | location 2961-2961 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:54:18

frail old Lord Conor Aldiare.
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- Your Note on page 194 | location 2961 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:55:00

HTML source from Calibre Metadata

Text from Metadata

2957	Tue 15 Jan 2019 02:49:44 AM
Beth and her husband Niall. Anrhi

2958	Tue 15 Jan 2019 02:50:24 AM
Niall or Brian?
2960	Tue 15 Jan 2019 02:51:02 AM
Órlaith’s parents, Danny and Laragh. The two older

2960	Tue 15 Jan 2019 02:51:51 AM
The two older

2961	Tue 15 Jan 2019 02:51:50 AM
De two older

Thanks for the HTML as that allows me to see what the plugin produces. But, going through the sample from the My Clippings.txt, it isn't completely obvious which highlight and notes are connected. I would assume the ones with the same timestamp and location. But, that doesn't appear to be it. Most of the notes have a later timestamp than the highlight. It is only a few seconds, and probably represents how long it took to tap in the note. But that makes it harder to be sure the note and highlight are associated. And in the Kobo, I can make a highlight or bookmark and add a note to it later. Is this possible with the Kindle? If so, it makes it much harder to be sure of the association between the two.

And which highlight? The location is something like a paragraph. It would be easy to separately highlight the first and last words. And then knowing which word the note is attached to becomes harder.

I actually find your explanations and replies hard to follow,

If there is something in my posts that you don't understand, then ask for clarification. And if you use the quoting that is part of the forum, you can be specific about which parts.

so it wasn't clear that all you were doing was reading "my clippings.txt", though it seems very slow to be only doing that.

Well, I have only mentioned the My Clippings.txt and several times said it was the source of the data. I would have said if it came from somewhere else. Or asked for samples.

As to speed, I can't comment on that as I don't have a Kindle to test with. It is processing the complete file, so the more entries the longer. There is also some clumsiness in matching that back to the book on the device and calibre library. There isn't a direct link, so it actually has to look at the books. That is probably what is slow.

I thought you'd found access to something else asiIt's not even accurately copying what is there, compared with the Kindle DXG I had. I can't test it as I passed it on to someone with Macular Degeneration.
I hope to have an old 6" Kindle Keyboard soon to test mobi formating. Someone getting the current basic Kindle.

So anyway, I'm back to proofing people's texts on the Kobo as it's now at least usable again with combination of larger margin, line spacing and SD Card. Though poorer than when I bought it. Sadly though the Kindle is great for source selection and note typing compared to Kobo, the "my clippings.txt" is too limited lacking chapter & chapter %. Page numbers are a bit stupid on eBooks. The "location" might be good if it was something 100% reliable based on paragraph count. I've no idea what it is, except it's not affected by device screen, font size or page settings.

I have been told what the location is, but, as I don't use it, haven't bothered to remember. I'm sure it has been discussed here.

It's up to you what you change

As I said, until someone else confirms it, I'm not making a change.

but certainly it's needlessly repeating identical time stamps for note and source highlight,

Where is it repeating identical time stamps? There is one repeated timestamp in your My Clippings.txt sample ("15 January 2019 02:51:50"). There are none in either the HTML or the text version.

contrary to CSS preview and only putting location, not location range or page, at least I think so.

Maybe you need a friend with a Kindle PW3 or something using current FW to test.

I rely on the people who use the plugin to help with testing. They are the ones who find the bugs and know what is happening.

And my friends have better taste in devices

I thought of writing a program to process "my clippings.txt"

Be my guest.

Edit:
The "my clippings.txt" clip is newer than the Calibre import as it ends that book with

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- Your Highlight on page 282 | location 4320-4320 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 23:35:03

including yourselves if we take on the obligation of supplying the Reservations.”
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- Your Note on page 282 | location 4320 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 23:35:10

Fix
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- Your Highlight on page 283 | location 4332-4332 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 23:35:56

“You’ll have to see. Don’t
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- Your Note on page 283 | location 4332 | Added on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 23:36:42

They are going to Emarineer sehortly

and the parts from Calibre are at the end.

However you can see the rather useless Page is missing (can be used I suppose on Kindle if no settings changed) and that locations for highlight can have a range.

Sorry, I'm baffled by this. Is this an extra section to demonstrate something? Just another sample? Or are you saying that when you ran the annotations plugin it didn't process all of the file? And what do you mean by "the parts from Calibre are at the end"? Nothing in that segment comes from calibre. So, the end of what? What parts from calibre? Was it just to show the range? If so, your other examples already showed it well enough. And the plugin handles ranges. But, it only takes the first number. Again, I'm not sure what use the full range would be in the fetched data.