Thread: [GUI Plugin] Annotations
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Old 03-08-2021, 11:19 PM   #918
davidfor
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Originally Posted by hollowpoint View Post
So, the questions boil down to these:

- Is there any way to attach one's current-gen smart devices (Android 10/11, iOS 14.x) to Calibre and *directly* import the synced Kindle annotations?
For iOS the answer is definitely no. The plugin did support it, but, Apple made it extremely hard or possibly impossible to do so. They locked down the access when the device was connected and from what I saw, no one could manage to do it.

For Android, I don't know, but, definitely not at the moment. There are absolutely no standards for annotations. Each ereader app handles them differently. They have to store them somewhere, and for the plugin to get them, they need to be in a place that the plugin can see them. And someone needs to write code to do this. I can do that for anything I use, but, if I don't use the app or device, I hope that someone steps up to do it. I'll help, but, without being able to test something, makes it hard to prove it works.

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- Thots on what might be blocking the PW4 from importing annotations? This one I expected to work, even though I had doubts about the smart devices.
Try one of the betas in the thread. There was a problem with the last release with Kindles. It was partly due to handling for KFX but there were some other things happening.

And for the record, I keep meaning to release this properly, but, something keeps coming up that means maybe it needs a little more work. I'll try to get one out this weekend as I think the problems it fixes outweighs those that are still occurring.
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