MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Transfer annotations from iBooks to Calibre/Kindle?

davidfor · 07-09-2019, 07:20 AM

@air_inside: I'm pretty sure the answer is no. There is no real standard for annotations being used. And it is difficult to get annotations from most apps and devices. None have a real way to restore them. Plus, the lack of a standard means that translating the location of an annotation one format or app to another means that someone has to decode the method use, work out how to do it for the next app and implement that. And the location of the annotations has to be available. I doubt they would be anywhere they could be accessed in iBooks. And I'm not sure if the file they are stored in on a Kindle has been decoded.

The Annotations plugin won't help you. It can get the annotations from several devices and apps. But, it doesn't record the full location, so it cannot restore them later.

07-09-2019, 07:20 AM	#3
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	@air_inside: I'm pretty sure the answer is no. There is no real standard for annotations being used. And it is difficult to get annotations from most apps and devices. None have a real way to restore them. Plus, the lack of a standard means that translating the location of an annotation one format or app to another means that someone has to decode the method use, work out how to do it for the next app and implement that. And the location of the annotations has to be available. I doubt they would be anywhere they could be accessed in iBooks. And I'm not sure if the file they are stored in on a Kindle has been decoded. The Annotations plugin won't help you. It can get the annotations from several devices and apps. But, it doesn't record the full location, so it cannot restore them later.