Thread: Kobo locations
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Old 02-22-2022, 06:28 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by olof-ynwa View Post
I'm guessing that the sdr folder contains that info in the kindle, which is out of reach then I suppose.
Yes, the SDR folder or files is what I understand. From memory, there is an explanation of the file and a script to extract the annotations somewhere in the Kindle forum.
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But if I understood you correctly, it seems then that the locations in the kindle are basically used to narrow down where the locations are while text search is used to find the actual highlighted text?
So the approximations of the locations are probably difficult to reproduce? But in that case you could just use pages instead. (for the most common case where there's only one image on one page, and then highlighting text next to the image, and text search, for the other rarer cases).

This doesn't really belong to the kobo forum but the unpacked kindle toc.ocx doesn't contain the correct paging.
When parsing the html I get that my example book has 465 pages while the kindle device shows that it has over 600 (on the web it says that it has 458). Which probably means that i can't use pages either on the kindle :/?? (Have to ask on the other forum). I'm guessing that the same issues doesn't exist when using epub on the kobo? But perhaps they appear if you start converting the ebook back and forth betweemn different formats?
The "My Clippings.txt", it is a transaction log of annotations made on that particular device. The device does not read it. It writes to it as annotations are made, and nothing else. The location is something calculated for the book. I have no idea how a Kindle does this, but, other than as an approximation of how far through the book an annotation is, it is useless. And really, the only use for the "My Clippings.txt" is to make it a little bit easier to copy a quote from the device.
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