Thread: Annotations seem completely broken
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Old 05-12-2026, 05:00 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Frogm4n View Post
MyClippings.txt has never been a reliable or official source of annotations. It's a scratchpad for the Kindle to put input into. The Kindle OS is using it for more things now, which interferes with the old assumptions by importer programs that assume it's just annotations and notes. This has nothing to do with DRM or Amazon blocking access.
Correct!

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Originally Posted by jgrand View Post
My comment about the DRM was a simple analogy to say Amazon shouldn't make it so hard for an user to access his own notes.
As Frogm4n wrote, the blame for misuse of the "My Clippings" doesn't completely or even mostly fall on amazon.

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Originally Posted by jgrand View Post
This could be of smaller importance if I could somehow access and export annotations and highlights in personal documents in some other way, like directly from the mbp file in each personal document. Do you know such a method?
For almost 7 years people and developers could have been starting with:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=321811
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=322172
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