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Originally Posted by sunreader
Does it really have to be the same app? Could I not view the epub + annotation file (edited with for example moon reader on android) with calibre on linux? Or does that annotation file only work within the moon reader app?
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well if you view a moon reader annotation files in notepad , all you see is gibberish. they are stored in a small .an file, one per book, if you sync your annotations back into cloud storage.
so it depends how much time you want to spend learning how to decipher what they use.
and for sure, only moon could re-combine them with the book on some other device.
your problem is lack of standards.
I think amazon have the simplest way of accessing annotations. You can annotate on a kindle and access what you have done via a web page - but that probably only works for books bought from amazon, and they dont sell epubs!
you will find threads detailing and discussing what can be done with epub annotations made on a Kobo device, or in the Kobo for android app , but its not so simple to export them
how important is is that the book format has to be epub and not, say, a Kindle format
PS for a current discussion on getting annotations for sideloaded books from kobo, go here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=322901