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jhowell · 05-14-2023, 10:42 AM

Some information is known about Scribe annotation storage from previous examination.

Books and personal documents in KFX format contain a .yjr file found in the .sdr folder associated with the book. For non-Scribe devices that contains all of the annotations made to that book. On a Scribe the .yjr file also has links to handwritten annotations. Those are stored as strokes in an SQLite database which can be found in a folder associated with the book:
/.notebooks/{ASIN}!!{CDETYPE}!!notebook/nbk

Amazon may have used the same mechanism for annotating notebooks. If so then it is possible that each notebook has main KFX file holding a copy of the template for each page and an associated .sdr folder with a .yjr file linking to the SQLite stroke database for that notebook.

It might be worthwhile to search for such a folder structure, possible in a hidden subfolder of the documents folder of the Scribe. Or perhaps these are stored somewhere else, such as in the GUID named folders under .notebooks.

05-14-2023, 10:42 AM	#5
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,118 Karma: 92500001 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Charlottesville, VA Device: Kindles	Some information is known about Scribe annotation storage from previous examination. Books and personal documents in KFX format contain a .yjr file found in the .sdr folder associated with the book. For non-Scribe devices that contains all of the annotations made to that book. On a Scribe the .yjr file also has links to handwritten annotations. Those are stored as strokes in an SQLite database which can be found in a folder associated with the book: /.notebooks/{ASIN}!!{CDETYPE}!!notebook/nbk Amazon may have used the same mechanism for annotating notebooks. If so then it is possible that each notebook has main KFX file holding a copy of the template for each page and an associated .sdr folder with a .yjr file linking to the SQLite stroke database for that notebook. It might be worthwhile to search for such a folder structure, possible in a hidden subfolder of the documents folder of the Scribe. Or perhaps these are stored somewhere else, such as in the GUID named folders under .notebooks.