I really like to actually work with books in the form of highlighting parts to go over it again later. While highlighting works quite well, going over highlights on the Kindle itself is just not really a great user experience. Actually, it is ridiculous how bad this is implemented. My fastest way was just to fast flip through every single page of an ebook on the Kindle.
What I would love but unfortunately do not get:
Fully automatically sync highlighted passages to Evernote
A workaround I came up with so far:
- Highlight passages in the ebook while reading
- Connect Kindle to PC
- Use https://www.clippings.io and import all the highlights of all the books to clippings
- Export highlights from clippings to Evernote
I did not work that much with this workaround, so I am sure there are still some issues, e.g., deleted notes or books not synced, maybe redundant highlights.
- Do you have an alternative approach?
- Is there an ebook reader (hardware) that works better with highlights + exports than Kindle?
- What if I reset my Kindle? All the highlights will be lost? How can I save them / embed them to the actual ebook file?
I know for Amazon purchased books you can access highlights at
https://read.amazon.com/ but this does not work for all books.