Thread: [GUI Plugin] Annotations
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Old 08-06-2022, 11:25 PM   #1108
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Originally Posted by zmix View Post
I'm trying to back up my notes from my trusty old Sony PRS-350 but the Sony Reader Library and Desktop Reader software just stopped communicating with my Mac in about 2015 (I've been using Calibre since).

I installed those old programs on my Windows XP machine, and they detect the reader, but when I try to sync I get an error:

"Reader Library has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience"

When I examine the crash report it seems to be graphics related.

I did a search and discovered the Annotations plug-in and installed the latest version on 2 of my computers, one an old MacBookPro running High Sierra (OSX 10.13) running Calibre V3.48 and one a Mac Pro running OSX 11.6.7 and the latest version of Calibre.

Neither of them can import the notes from my Sony PRS-350, they usually show a progress bar stuck at 0%.

Any ideas how I can extract my 179 pages of notes?
The plugin can get annotations from Sony devices, but, only some. And I have forgotten which as I didn't realise there was a difference when the function was added. The book and annotations details are stored in two different ways on the devices. Some use XML files, and some use an SQLite database. From the discussion last year about this, it appears the PRS-350 uses the XML files and hence the plugin cannot read it.

There is some information in those posts about how the annotations are stored. The XML files are structured text and you should be able to work out how to extract the text of the annotations and store them somehow.
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