Extracting highlights from Kobo ereaders has always been a pain, and I'm grateful to those in the user community who have tried to make it easier. Of course, any individual is free to use, or not, thekobonotes.com. In
the FAQ it says:
Is it safe to upload my Kobo .sqlite file to Kobonotes? How will you use my data?
We have developed Kobonotes to improve notes extraction from your Kobo eReader. In doing so, we tried to minimize the amount of data we collect from each user, which led us to the .sqlite file. Other eReaders, such as the Kindles, provide notes as a .txt file, which is smaller, easier to read, and only contain information about the highlights and annotations and nothing more. Kobo provides the same information in the form of a database, which contains more information that we need in order to present to you your notes. Now, I can assure you, we don’t use any other information presented on your .sqlite file besides checking what books currently have any notes and the highlights and annotations. We don’t even save your file, because all of its processing is made on your browser. So, in the end, we just save your highlights and annotations on our database, so we can show them to you from any device. The last thing I want with Kobonotes is being misunderstood. If you have any doubts regarding this website please let me know. Contact me through email, facebook or linkedin.