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Originally Posted by davidfor
...I'm not sure I can do it for the Kindle devices as the location information the plugin sees is not enough to match to the actual location in the book.
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Kindles store more detailed annotation information in a separate file associated with each book. Using those instead of My Clippings would have some advantages since they use exact positions within the book text, include annotations made using other devices, and don't include annotations that have been deleted by the user. A big disadvantage is that they do not include any content from the book. The position information must be used to obtain the annotated text from the format of the book found on the Kindle.
Most Kindle books delivered by Amazon will be in KFX format with unbroken DRM so there will be no way to extract the annotated content. Because the positions are tied to that particular Kindle format they will not be usable to locate text within a copy of the same book obtained elsewhere. However the annotation positions would be usable with sideloaded books and personal documents since they don't use KFX format or DRM.
For more information see the threads
azw3r highlight and note extraction info and
KRDS - A parser for Kindle reader data store files.