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Originally Posted by davidfor
Support for exporting annotations in readers is terrible. None of the companies really support it. And how good what is out there is depends on what you want to do with the exported annotations.
The Kobo devices possibly have the best support because of the Annotations plugin and Kobo Utilities (both my plugins, but I inherited the former from someone else). Which is better depends on what you want to do. I believe that @Quoth prefers the Kobo Utilities because he uses the annotations for proofreading books. Once he has fixed the source, he discards the annotations. If you are keeping the annotations as favourite quotes or something like that, the Annotations plugin might be better as it adds the annotations to the calibre library. There are several other ways to get the annotations from Kobo devices that are discussed in the Kobo forum..
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I do actually keep the exported text files forever and back them up immediately. With the Kobo Utilities (thanks David), you'd need to paste into Calibre metadata, either the original, or your own version. I do sometimes do that with notes relating to books I'm not proofing. I find it faster than the Annotations Plugin.
Indeed if you only want the Notes in Calibre and want to import notes, highlights and bookmarks of more than one book at the same time, the Annotations Plugin may be better. It also works for Kindles, though Kobo gives a better result. I used a DXG and a PW3 alternately for sometime on Calibre before getting the original Aura H2O and then Libra.
I've been using Calibre since my main computers both had XP. Changed over to Linux completely in Dec 2016, though I was familiar with it having given courses and installed servers in 1998 and having used various UNIX type systems since 1985 approximately.