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Originally Posted by jhowell

You might want to check out these threads:

azw3r highlight and note extraction info

KRDS - A parser for Kindle reader data store files

thanks so much jhowell
Reading through those threads helped me realize that azw3r tool has -r option, which should give me the original text. I tested it briefly. It didn't work for me yet but maybe I'm doing sth wrong.

Then I discovered the tool you wrote: KRDS. It worked like a charm. I followed your explanation to combine it with kindleunpack and this gave me the results I needed. The only remaining step in my project would have been filtering out formatting tags. Some of my annotations highlighted the text that had additional formatting.

At the end of the day, in one of the comments in the thread, I came across somebody recommending Kindle Mate. This software works for me out of the box, so I won't have to add any scripting for now. Otherwise I would build it on top of KRDS.

You guys did a fantastic job.

Thanks again