Exporting "My Words" off device?

Cactus Chef · 06-20-2022, 07:44 PM

Apologies if this has been asked before--the keyword "words" and "my words" are a little too vague to search effectively for past threads.

I have quite a few vocab words that I've saved to My Words on the Kobo that I would like to export out so that I can pull them into a vocabulary drill/flashcard app on my phone. Seems like this would be a great feature for the Kobo Android/iOS app, but alas it does not seem to exist yet. I like being able to save them on the Kobo, but it's a bit unwieldy to do vocab drills on the device itself.

Does anyone know if the list of words I've saved can be pulled out? Do any of the tools that exist for exporting Annotations/Highlights export these as well?

Thanks in advance.

davidfor · 06-20-2022, 10:50 PM

I don't know of any tools for exporting the word list. They are stored in a table in the database. Extracting from that would not be to hard, you just need some SQL skills and a way to run the SQL statement against the database.

For annotations, there are various ways to do it. I put an overview in https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...01#post3215101. I wrote it a while ago, but, almost everything is still correct. The one that might not be is @tshering's tool. I don't know if that has been updated for some changes that happened a couple of years ago. I suspect not. I don't remember seeing any other methods since then.

06-20-2022, 07:44 PM	#1
Cactus Chef Fanatic Posts: 573 Karma: 7058832 Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: East Coast, United States Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Clara HD, Galaxy Tab S5e, Kindle 4th Gen	Exporting "My Words" off device? Apologies if this has been asked before--the keyword "words" and "my words" are a little too vague to search effectively for past threads. I have quite a few vocab words that I've saved to My Words on the Kobo that I would like to export out so that I can pull them into a vocabulary drill/flashcard app on my phone. Seems like this would be a great feature for the Kobo Android/iOS app, but alas it does not seem to exist yet. I like being able to save them on the Kobo, but it's a bit unwieldy to do vocab drills on the device itself. Does anyone know if the list of words I've saved can be pulled out? Do any of the tools that exist for exporting Annotations/Highlights export these as well? Thanks in advance.

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06-20-2022, 10:50 PM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I don't know of any tools for exporting the word list. They are stored in a table in the database. Extracting from that would not be to hard, you just need some SQL skills and a way to run the SQL statement against the database. For annotations, there are various ways to do it. I put an overview in https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...01#post3215101. I wrote it a while ago, but, almost everything is still correct. The one that might not be is @tshering's tool. I don't know if that has been updated for some changes that happened a couple of years ago. I suspect not. I don't remember seeing any other methods since then.

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