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febalci · 05-13-2025, 02:22 PM

Very good idea, thanks for all the work. Actually, Dropbox is more preferrable.

As of now i am using this shell script. It creates a local markdown file on the device which includes 3 parts; Annotations, Bookmarks and Currently Reading.

Sample from Annotations:

Code:

### 🔖 The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang

*2025-01-29 17:59:41*\
Chapter 17

> “You made fun of mefor years at Sinegard.You didn’t say a kind word to me until Mugen was at our doorstep.”To his credit, Nezha actually looked guilty…

Sample from Bookmarks:

Code:

### 🔖 The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, 2025

30/01/2025 16:46:33
:
Chapter 19, 72%  read

> They had sent two regiments:one attacking perpendicular to the river and theother snaking around to the wharf from the direction of the canals.But the…

And Sample from Currently Reading:

Code:

## Currently reading:

- The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang (Chapter 19, 72% read)
- Pop-up — Booklist : Z-Library,  (20% read)
- Savaş Sanatı, Sun Tzu (15% read)
- Kemikavcılar, Steven Erikson (2, 7% read)

Bookmarks and last read page are really important because on ios i don't have a koreader and use yomu; and i have to transfer my last read page from kobo to ios somehow.

I tried to add sending the .md file from kobo to dropbox or any other server from within the script. However curl, rclone, wget post etc. none of them work; busybox doesn't have these. So maybe you can add also the above details to your tool and even if dropbox is not usable; emailing this .md file will just work fine.

05-13-2025, 02:22 PM	#6
febalci Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2019 Device: none	Very good idea, thanks for all the work. Actually, Dropbox is more preferrable. As of now i am using this shell script. It creates a local markdown file on the device which includes 3 parts; Annotations, Bookmarks and Currently Reading. Sample from Annotations: Code: ### 🔖 The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang 2025-01-29 17:59:41\ Chapter 17 > “You made fun of mefor years at Sinegard.You didn’t say a kind word to me until Mugen was at our doorstep.”To his credit, Nezha actually looked guilty… Sample from Bookmarks: Code: ### 🔖 The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, 2025 30/01/2025 16:46:33 : Chapter 19, 72% read > They had sent two regiments:one attacking perpendicular to the river and theother snaking around to the wharf from the direction of the canals.But the… And Sample from Currently Reading: Code: ## Currently reading: - The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang (Chapter 19, 72% read) - Pop-up — Booklist : Z-Library, (20% read) - Savaş Sanatı, Sun Tzu (15% read) - Kemikavcılar, Steven Erikson (2, 7% read) Bookmarks and last read page are really important because on ios i don't have a koreader and use yomu; and i have to transfer my last read page from kobo to ios somehow. I tried to add sending the .md file from kobo to dropbox or any other server from within the script. However curl, rclone, wget post etc. none of them work; busybox doesn't have these. So maybe you can add also the above details to your tool and even if dropbox is not usable; emailing this .md file will just work fine.