[GUI Plugin] Annotations

[Tatiana]

Hello everyone! First off I’d like to say that the annotations plugin is great, I have just started using it with my Kobo Libra Colour and it works very well.

There is only one thing that would make it even better: now that there are colour e-ink readers out there, the chance to colour code highlights is perfect, and it would be great to be able to see the colours of the highlights in the imported annotations, the strip at the top of each note could be the same colour as the original highlight and that would be a very practical way of displaying the info.

I don’t know about coding and I don’t know where the Kobo stores the highlight colour information, it doesn’t seem to be included in the text files that you can extract from the Kobo, so I don’t know if this implementation would be possible, but it would be great if you could give it a try!

Thank you!!!

[Quoth]

Text files don't do colour, so how would that work?

[VeganBookworm]

I reinstalled Calibre and had to delete all addons. Now, I think, I can't manage to connect the annotations column anymore. Or is this a problem with linking the device to the correct column?

calibre, version 8.0.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>TypeError</b>:'str' object is not callable

calibre 8.0  embedded-python: True
macOS-15.4-arm64-arm-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '')
('Darwin', '24.4.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 24.4.0: Wed Mar 12 21:24:23 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.101.13~4/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112')
Python 3.11.5
OSX: ('15.4', ('', '', ''), 'arm64')
Interface language: None
EXE path: /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Annotations (1, 17, 13)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.annotations.action", line 363, in fetch_usb_connected_device_annotations
    self.fetch_usb_device_annotations(self.get_connected_device_primary_name())
  File "calibre_plugins.annotations.action", line 407, in fetch_usb_device_annotations
    annotated_book_list = self.get_annotated_books_on_usb_device(reader_app)
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "calibre_plugins.annotations.action", line 624, in get_annotated_books_on_usb_device
    ra.get_active_annotations()
  File "/var/folders/27/s66wkthd6fv_0kq2gqzht8v40000gn/T/calibre_annotations_plugin/KoboTouch.py", line 72, in get_active_annotations
  File "/var/folders/27/s66wkthd6fv_0kq2gqzht8v40000gn/T/calibre_annotations_plugin/KoboTouch.py", line 378, in _fetch_annotations
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Any one able to help?

[Terisa de morgan]

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[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by VeganBookworm

I reinstalled Calibre and had to delete all addons. Now, I think, I can't manage to connect the annotations column anymore. Or is this a problem with linking the device to the correct column?

calibre, version 8.0.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>TypeError</b>:'str' object is not callable

calibre 8.0  embedded-python: True
macOS-15.4-arm64-arm-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '')
('Darwin', '24.4.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 24.4.0: Wed Mar 12 21:24:23 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.101.13~4/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112')
Python 3.11.5
OSX: ('15.4', ('', '', ''), 'arm64')
Interface language: None
EXE path: /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibre
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Annotations (1, 17, 13)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.annotations.action", line 363, in fetch_usb_connected_device_annotations
    self.fetch_usb_device_annotations(self.get_connected_device_primary_name())
  File "calibre_plugins.annotations.action", line 407, in fetch_usb_device_annotations
    annotated_book_list = self.get_annotated_books_on_usb_device(reader_app)
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "calibre_plugins.annotations.action", line 624, in get_annotated_books_on_usb_device
    ra.get_active_annotations()
  File "/var/folders/27/s66wkthd6fv_0kq2gqzht8v40000gn/T/calibre_annotations_plugin/KoboTouch.py", line 72, in get_active_annotations
  File "/var/folders/27/s66wkthd6fv_0kq2gqzht8v40000gn/T/calibre_annotations_plugin/KoboTouch.py", line 378, in _fetch_annotations
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Any one able to help?

Calibre 8? Are you trying to collect annotations from a Kobo ereader?

[phrogpilot73]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Calibre 8?

I just upgraded to Calibre 8.0.1 and can confirm the same issue. On the release notes of Calibre 8.0.1, it discusses improvements to the Kobo Touch plugin. I'm guessing it's related to that.

[VeganBookworm]

Yes and yes

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Text files don't do colour, so how would that work?

Annotation color is in Kobo database. And annotations in calibre are prefaced by a line with position information, so ideally that line would change based on the color you've given in the ereader.

[Terisa de morgan]

I'm afraid the error is related to the change in the kobo driver. Without changing the plugin, it isn't going to work with calibre 8.

[Terisa de morgan]

Can you try if this plugin works?

[VeganBookworm]

This works! I am able to import annotations

One thing, and I am not sure if that is due to the book or the plugin, is that it doesn't get chapter headings:

It says

xhtml/13_Text.xhtml

.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by VeganBookworm

This works! I am able to import annotations

One thing, and I am not sure if that is due to the book or the plugin, is that it doesn't get chapter headings:

It says

xhtml/13_Text.xhtml

.

No idea, the other thing has been a quite fix, this is above my paygrade.... but all my annotations have chapter headings.

[VeganBookworm]

Well, I do not care too much about the headings, I only realised they were headings now because of it being non-textual.

[aik099]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Can you try if this plugin works?

Hello,


Terisa de morgan, what is the state of this Calibre plugin?

1. are there any releases planned?
2. would a PR send to the https://github.com/davidfor/calibre-annotations repository be reviewed/merged?

Thank you.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by aik099

Hello,


Terisa de morgan, what is the state of this Calibre plugin?

1. are there any releases planned?
2. would a PR send to the https://github.com/davidfor/calibre-annotations repository be reviewed/merged?

Thank you.

No idea. I don't know if you're aware the original creator is no longer between us, so I don't think any PR sent to that repository will be taken care of. And current state? I don't know if somebody is maintaining it. I've done this easy change because I use the plugin as is, so I needed it to work, but nothing else.