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Originally Posted by NullNix
It's easy for automation to deal with that -- look up the position in the first book, capture some text (sans formatting) around the position, look for that text in the second book starting at the same position (since it is probably somewhere *near* there, even if not actually there), use the new position if found. If not found, just use the position unchanged (and warn) because it's better than losing the note.
(Have I done it? No, but I've written similar tools for different very non-ebook-like formats which do just this, and it works.)
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Of course it can be done. amazon oviously have tools to do it. I was a little sloppy with my wording. By one difficulty, I meant too tedious and time consuming compared to my interest in doing it to even consider spending time on it. (I am the sole judge of "too" for how I spend my pro bono time.)
There is also the matter that I am not aware of any available tools to write the notes files.
I won't be holding my breath waiting for any to appear and I am not going to take a stab at it.