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Old 11-28-2023, 02:01 PM   #15
Jasmine GreenTea
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Device: Kobo Elipsa E2, Kobo Aura H20 ed 2, Kobo Clara, Sony PRS T2 & T3
@Quoth -- Thank you, this is really helpful.

I see that the way highlights and annotations are recorded on my Elipsa is different from the one on Aura H2O. If the former keeps that data in the SQL database, whereas the Aura stores it in a folder called Annotations (which actually refers also to Highlights), where each author has their own folder that includes a file with the extension .annot which contains the text of each annotation in clear text, set between paired tags like this:
Quote:
<annotation>
<dc:identifier>urn:uuid:808d764c-7644-4f57-9637-6e24966182c6</dc:identifier>
<dc:date>2018-05-15T18:00:07Z</dc:date>
<target>
<fragment start="OEBPS/Text/index_split_017.html#point(/1/4/288/3:39)" end="OEBPS/Text/index_split_017.html#point(/1/4/290/1:15)" progress="0">
<text>the sighting of the mainland – kinara agil hai! – was the spell broken. The lookout’s shout set off a race to the maindeck; even some of the wounded, barely able to stand on their own feet, went hobbling forward to catch their first glimpse of the land of Maha-chin.</text>
</fragment>
</target>
<content>
<dc:date>2018-05-15T18:00:07Z</dc:date>
</content>
</annotation>
When I had to reset my Aura, I was able recover my highlights and annotations by simply copying these files from my computer back to the ereader. (These were all third-party books).

I wonder why did Kobo abandon this system, which was more user friendly.
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