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Originally Posted by DarkTrick
(1) I was wondering: why is there no standard to store annotations in an ePub book? Perhaps some insights?
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A lot of this was discussed back in
2017: "Merge notes into epub file?".
To my knowledge, not too much has changed on that front.
In 2021, Calibre added support for a way to export notes/highlights to markdown from Calibre's reader...
But there's definitely no cross-format, cross-compatible way of doing this. Just individuals coming up with all their non-standard, (proprietary) ways for every individual format.
Side Note: If I remember correctly, the current "best"/most compatible way, might be baking all the notes/highlights into PDFs + only read using specific apps on your computer/tablet. (That was probably discussed in the 2017 thread above.)
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Originally Posted by DarkTrick
How would that work in conjunction with DRMs?
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That's a huge part of it.
A lot of it also gets very complicated when the underlying file itself may change slightly. (Fixing typos, updating code, etc.)
How will your highlights and everything stay synced + transfer over?
Amazon probably has the current, best ecosystem for this... but the second something gets updated in the ebook, poof, all your notes+highlights are gone.
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Originally Posted by PeterT
Remember that even if a standard were to be established there would be no guarantee that it would be implemented in devices / software; look at the number of solutions out there that don't fully implement the current standards
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