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Originally Posted by davidfor

I see that now, and the change sort of makes sense, but, it turns out that you and @Quoth were talking about completely different things.

Officially, there is no way. But, there is a config file entry that can be added to enable this. You need to add the following to the "Kobo eReader.conf" file on the device:

[FeatureSettings]
BookSpecificStats=true
ExportHighlights=true

The "FeatureSettings" might already be there. If it is, add the other lines after it. And if you do this on Windows, make sure you use a Linux line-end aware editor.

The "BookSpecificStats" is not needed for exporting the annotations. It turns on an option to see the Reading Stats for books other than the one you are currently reading. Those lines were together in my config file, so I copied them all.

With these options in the config file, when you long-press on a book in the lists, it will have "Export Annotations" and "Reading Stats" at the end.

Thanks for this. I was able to do this.

The Annotations plugin can be used for that. When you connect the device, the Annotations plugin button will have the option "Fetch annotations from connected device". Pressing that will start the fetch. The plugin gets annotations form the device for books in the calibre library. When finished, it displays the list of books with annotations. You can look at them and decide to keep them or not. If you import them, the annotations are added to the metadata for the books. Which means they are added to a column in calibre. If you do this again, the new annotations are merged with the existing annotations.

But, @Quoth doesn't use that. His annotations tend to be ephemeral. He marks up errors in the books, fixes them and then removes the annotations. For this, the uses "Copy annotations for Selected Book" which is part of the Kobo Utilities plugin. That reads the annotations from the selected books and shows them in a dialog. You can read them there or copy them to the clipboard.

Which of these is best depends on what you the annotations are for. If you want to keep them long term, the Annotations plugin is probably better. But, for short-lived annotations, the other probably is. If you are going to copy them elsewhere, the Kobo Utilities method might be better. I suggest trying them both and seeing what suits you better.

This one is a negative for me. Even though my device (libra) is connected to Calibre, and the device book is highlighted (one with highlights), all options are greyed out including Fetch annotations in the Annotations plugin. It is unfortunate as this is the method that i want more.