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Originally Posted by jhowell
Yes. See KRDS - A parser for Kindle reader data store files.
The main problem with that approach is that the text being annotated is referenced using "position" numbers. It is not actually included in those files. The actual book files must be used to decode the position and find the referenced text.
The method for doing that varies with different books formats (MOBi, KF8, KFX, etc) and so implementing it would take some work. And a major roadblock to that approach is that most books purchased from Amazon are in KFX format with DRM that cannot be decoded using the DeDRM plugin. |
Yes, understood.
However to start with, I am interested in experimenting with Scribe personal documents, which are KFX flavors without DRM (and I expect that will be true of other Kindles at some point). The older formats are becoming less relevant every day.
For Amazon purchases, I propose following experiment: download KFX from Amazon, create some annotations, then swap in KFX converted from AZW3 to see how it picks up the annotations.
Just learning more about how things are put together is of value to me as well.