How to deal with clipping limits?

[MDMullins]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Of course there is. That you don't seem to know it doesn't mean others don't.

No. You're definitely nitpicking. Mostly just picking fights I suspect.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Yes, I know, but it's not representative of ebook users in general. It's a vocal minority.

While it may be just a "vocal minority" it truly *is* vocal. My daughter participates in "booktok", and most of the people on there read on multiple Kindles (as do both my daughter and myself)

My son jumps back and forth between the audio and ebook version of books all the time, and while I guess it would be possible without the sync that Amazon does, it's definitely *much* easier with it. (and yes, I know that for the audio/ebook sync to work both copies have to have been purchased from Amazon)

So yeah...there are a LOT of people who sync books among different devices for lots of different reasons. A lot of those people use Kindles because you can sync books from virtually any source if you aren't afraid to use the Send to Kindle service.

I may try Pocketbook someday, but I will probably never go back to Kobo because being able to sync all of my books no matter where they're from is so important to me. (even if it's not important to you)

Shari

[mikae1]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Why do you prefer Kindle over Kobo? What annoys about Kobo?

I concluded years ago that this is hardcoded into the Kindle reader. Likely if jailbroken and KOReader is used is the only bypass.

This, plus Collections, Metadata, Series and better annotations (inc "clippings") was why I switched to Kobo years ago. I still have 4 Kindles, only used for tests and purchasing Amazon Exclusives.

Does anyone know if KOReader fixes the clipping limit? Can I use Push to Kindle if I have KOReader installed? I’m open to getting a Kobo only to solve this problem, but I need a service like Push to Kindle send articles and blog posts to the device. Realistically I won’t have the patience to go the cable route as I push about 5–10 articles and posts every day. I also need the clippings to be saved in an open format that is saved on the device. I’ve loved the plain text setup with the Kindle.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by mikae1

Does anyone know if KOReader fixes the clipping limit? Can I use Push to Kindle if I have KOReader installed? I’m open to getting a Kobo only to solve this problem, but I need a service like Push to Kindle send articles and blog posts to the device. Realistically I won’t have the patience to go the cable route as I push about 5–10 articles and posts every day. I also need the clippings to be saved in an open format that is saved on the device. I’ve loved the plain text setup with the Kindle.

I'm not sure if KOReader has a clipping limit. As for using Push to Kindle, one acquaintance of mine is using Push to Kindle to send files to DropBox from which he syncs them to his KOReader on his Kobo ereader. This should also work for KOReader on a Kindle as well. I haven't paid that much attention but from what I've seen, Push to Kindle generates an epub which is then converted to an Amazon format by using the email flavour of Amazon's Send to Kindle. For DropBox, the email is sent to your DropBox account's email address.

However unlike a Kobo or Pocketbook ereader, where installing KOReader is pretty trivial, a Kindle ereader will require being jailbroken before KOReader can be installed.

[mikae1]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I'm not sure if KOReader has a clipping limit. As for using Push to Kindle, one acquaintance of mine is using Push to Kindle to send files to DropBox from which he syncs them to his KOReader on his Kobo ereader. This should also work for KOReader on a Kindle as well. I haven't paid that much attention but from what I've seen, Push to Kindle generates an epub which is then converted to an Amazon format by using the email flavour of Amazon's Send to Kindle. For DropBox, the email is sent to your DropBox account's email address.

However unlike a Kobo or Pocketbook ereader, where installing KOReader is pretty trivial, a Kindle ereader will require being jailbroken before KOReader can be installed.

Thanks!

Push to Kindle has a feature where it can download an Epub instead of sending it to the Kindle.

The nice thing about it is that it’s a bookmarklet and works in any browser and the web page can be edited before downloading or sending. I can change the title, exclude images or just paste an article manually.

Just have to look into KOReader. But seems I don’t have much to lose. The device now is basically a paperweight as it doesn’t do what I need it to do.

[reckon]

Originally Posted by MDMullins

So I'm trying to find away around the well-known problem of clipping limits, but it turns out that it is not set by the publisher. In my own book — that I wrote — in Scrivener, exported to ePub, imported to Calibre — converted to azw3 and back to ePub — sent to my Kindle via Send-to-Kindle website … there is still a 10% limit on the highlights I'm allowed to export. Amazon says this is 'set by the publisher', but as I'm the author and 'publisher', this isn't true.

I did this to test what causes the limit to be triggered. As far as I can tell, it's triggered by all books I Send-to-Kindle. Does anyone know if there's some metadata that can be manipulated to overcome this? I love the Kindle devices and have not found an acceptable alternative — don't like Kobo, don't want the distraction of Android. I hate to jump ship over this one little thing. But I need a way around this as I sometimes have a lot of notes and highlights.

and

You can bypass the clipping limits on books sent via Send-to-Kindle using the Kindle Android App.

To do this, open the restricted book in the kindle app. Then tap the highlights button on the toolbar. Next, tap the sharing button in the top right corner. From there, you can export all your highlights. Your highlights will be exported as an HTML file.

You can follow the instructions here:
https://docs.readwise.io/readwise/do...dle-apps-email

By the way, this only works in the Android app. The limit still applies in the iOS app.

There are some drawbacks to this method. First, you can only export all notes at once. This means you can either export them after finishing the book, or you'll need to handle the duplicate notes. Second, there are very few tools that can parse Kindle highlights in html format, compared to MyClippings.txt. As far as I know, Readwise is the only choice, which is quite expensive.

I had the idea of writing a parser, but apparently it's quite a bit of work. Maybe I will finish it in the future.