Thread: Best Reader for Annotations+Highlights: Saving, Searching, and Transferring?
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Old 10-05-2020, 10:02 PM   #12
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin View Post
I don' think you are being unfair. I don't annotate much, but I was disappointed to discover that the few I did make on my Kindles (over several years) when I switched to Kobo. It's one of the reasons I'm making more use of Calibre and why I think the new "embedding" option it offers is promising. Especially as it will be device-agnostic.
Sorry, you have this wrong. The calibre viewer now supports annotations. These are stored in the calibre library database. They optionally be stored in a file inside some book formats, but, this is in a calibre format and not shown by any other reader application than the calibre viewer. If you shared the copy of the book with someone else, they would be able to see them. There is also an export function. I assume this could be used to transfer the annotations to someone else. But, it probably requires the same edition of the book

The Annotations plugin will fetch annotations from Kindles, Kobos and tolinos. It adds them as a comment-type column into the library. This is one-way - device to library only. When I have time, I intend to look at storing them as calibre annotations. But, that might only work for epubs on Kobo devices. The annotations that can be seen on the other devices are not stored in a way that can be linked to locations in the books. And Kepubs have problems as well.

I will probably look at restoring the annotations to a device, but, again, probably only Kobo devices and probably only epubs.
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