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Originally Posted by davidfor
What book format are you using? If these are epubs, are there is a bug that messes with the chapter and position shown in the annotations list if you close and reopen the book. There has also been a bug in recent firmware where the location isn't stored properly. But, for that bug, the annotations are not likely to be retrieved.
Can you run calibre in debug mode when you do a fetch? There should be enough information in the log to show what is happening. But, I might also need to look at the database to see the order that is there.
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I'm always converting my .epubs to .kepubs when sending to my device. Do you know if they are also affected by the bugs you've mentioned? I'll try to get a log at some point and send it to you, thank you in advance.
To be honest, and I say this with deep appreciation for the work you've done, I'd settle for a robust way to "simply" extract annotations from books. It wouldn't even have to sync to Calibre, just extract them to a .txt file. A fancy alternative would be a single, plain .html with a clickable TOC at the top so I can click around to each book's annotations.
I know you can enable a hidden setting in Kobo devices to extract annotations to a plain .txt file, something I've been relying more and more on.
I understand that trying to accommodate two-way updates to annotations increases the complexity dramatically. I won't pretend having an easy solution to that. Still, for my personal use case, all I'm looking for is a robust way to extract annotations from a book to a static, text/html file I can easily go back to when I want to.