“You have reached the clipping limit” — I need a new solution!

mikae1 · 07-10-2025, 01:06 AM

I’ve been using Kindle devices for well over 10 years to read articles and blog post. I send them using the wonderful “Push to Kindle” service. I barely ever use it for reading books.

I use clippings a lot. 2024-11-17 I got the first “<You have reached the clipping limit for this item>” message in my My Clippings.txt. It seems it has gotten more sensitive with time and I now can’t read and highlight a single article without it pushing the message to the text file; and it’s making me furious!

I need to solve this ASAP. I’m ready to get a new device or start using the Kindle in a different way to solve the problem. Realistically though, I’m not going to have the patience to cable sync articles as I sync about 5–10 articles every day. I also want my future annotations to be saved in an open format. I loved the plain text setup on the Kindle.

Is there a solution out there?

Quoth · 07-10-2025, 06:20 AM

Copy & paste into LO Writer (combine pages), Edit ODT (fix tables, images, formatting), save extra DOCX, convert to epub with Calibre. Read on a Kobo. Use Kobo Utilities Plugin.

You can save a website in HTML and import to Calibre, but results are variable.

I gave up with Kindle clippings and annotations years ago.

issybird · 07-10-2025, 08:03 AM

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07-10-2025, 01:06 AM	#1
mikae1 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2025 Device: Kobo Sage	“You have reached the clipping limit” — I need a new solution! I’ve been using Kindle devices for well over 10 years to read articles and blog post. I send them using the wonderful “Push to Kindle” service. I barely ever use it for reading books. I use clippings a lot. 2024-11-17 I got the first “<You have reached the clipping limit for this item>” message in my My Clippings.txt. It seems it has gotten more sensitive with time and I now can’t read and highlight a single article without it pushing the message to the text file; and it’s making me furious! I need to solve this ASAP. I’m ready to get a new device or start using the Kindle in a different way to solve the problem. Realistically though, I’m not going to have the patience to cable sync articles as I sync about 5–10 articles every day. I also want my future annotations to be saved in an open format. I loved the plain text setup on the Kindle. Is there a solution out there?

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07-10-2025, 06:20 AM	#2
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,037 Karma: 105092227 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Copy & paste into LO Writer (combine pages), Edit ODT (fix tables, images, formatting), save extra DOCX, convert to epub with Calibre. Read on a Kobo. Use Kobo Utilities Plugin. You can save a website in HTML and import to Calibre, but results are variable. I gave up with Kindle clippings and annotations years ago.

07-10-2025, 08:03 AM	#3
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,294 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Moderator Notice Please don't double post. It's a violation of the guidelines. Thread closed.