Annotation export truncation bug fixed

[RobertJSawyer]

I haven't seen this mentioned in any of the release notes, but as of the current firmware (and maybe even earlier), the bug that saw annotations exported from a book into a text file being truncated has been fixed.

For annotation exporting to work, you have to have this value set in the file Kobo eReader.conf in the \.kobo\kobo folder on your device:

[FeatureSettings]
ExportHighlights=true

Once done, there will be an "Export annotations" choice on the menu for each book in your library; selecting it will create a book-specific Unicode text file with the annotations in the \Exported annotations folder on your device.

Here's a lengthy passage highlighted as a single piece across paragraphs exported from the Perry Mason novel The Case of the Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner (which is rather pertinent to the present day); defense lawyer Perry Mason is speaking to Hamilton Burger, the District Attorney:

“Because the public has sat idly by and let the organized prosecutors amend the law until the constitutional guarantees of the public were swept away. We’re living in a period of changing times. It’s quite possible that the definition of crime will be broadened to include things which we might at present list in the category of political crimes. When the ordinary citizen is dragged into court, he’ll find that the cards have been stacked against him. Ostensibly, they were stacked against the professional criminal by organized public servants, but actually they’ve been stacked against Mr. and Mrs. Ordinary Citizen, because the whole legal procedure has been completely undermined.

“It’s high time for citizens to wake up to the fact that it isn’t a question of whether a man is guilty or innocent, but whether his guilt or innocence can be proved under a procedure which leaves in the citizen the legal rights to which he is entitled under a constitutional government.

“You object to spectacular, dramatic methods of defense. You overlook the fact that for the past twenty-five years you have beguiled the public into releasing its constitutional rights so that the only effective methods of defense which are left are the spectacular and the dramatic. Now then, Mr. District Attorney, you go ahead and arrest Della Street, and we’ll thrash this thing out in a courtroom.”

[JSWolf]

Thank you for this bit of good news.