Thank you both for the replies and the clarity. They were immensely helpful.
theducks,
- That saved me a lot of time further attempting to troubleshoot something that wasn't broken.
jhowell,
- I doublechecked to see if I had missed something, but I couldn't find a "My Clippings" file in the app files for either the PC or Android versions of the Kindle app. Just to confirm my understanding, the Annotations plugin solution will only work with the "My Clippings.txt" file that is produced by physical e-ink Kindle devices, right? Or, said another way, this solution won't work for the (non-physical device) Kindle apps that don't produce that file, correct?
- I'm also curious, since .mbpV2 files are human-readable as plaintext what is the reason they aren't portable to another annotation format? (I assume there is a reason and I don't mean to trivialize the problem.) Is it because the "startPosition" and "endPosition" fields aren't mappable to the source text without additional information?
As I'm looking into the details of ebook and annotation formats I'm finding (not surprisingly) that it's a complex topic.
Do you have any recommendations for getting up to speed on the basics and/or learning the current state of the field?
Thank you again!