Tools kindle-reading-dashboard — view your on-device reading stats, pace & metadata

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Hi Zevi Svei,

My Kindle reformatted itself after I changed my Amazon email address and as a result I lost my clippings file containing a decade's worth of highlights and annotations. I have been able to recover a number of my books as well as SDR files using file recovery software, and put them back together into folders, so that I can actually see some of my highlights on my device again; however, I cannot figure out how to export my notes and annotations onto my computer.

Your software Kindle Dashboard Reader was recommended to me, and I am using the Calibre plugin - I can see the positions of my highlights in the dashboard, but I can't find a way to transfer the highlights onto my computer which is what I need to do - otherwise they will be trapped on my kindle forever, since the clippings file where they were recorded is gone. Is there any way you could add an export feature to the Kindle Dashboard Reader, enabling users to export highlights and annotations off of their devices? I would be eternally grateful if you could! If I understand what you have written on the github page this is possible - it seems there are some methods for exporting the highlights, but I know nothing about programming, so it's all Greek to me - I lack the technical knowledge to make use of the information.

I thought the option that sounded simplest which I might be able to make use of was the following:

python azw3text/assemble_azw3_text.py BOOK.azw3 # -> BOOK.dat (full book text)
python azw3text/extract_highlights.py BOOK.azw3 # -> BOOK.highlights.md

But unfortunately I don't know where I am supposed to enter those commands in order to extract my highlights. I doubt I'd succeed without a step by step tutorial - by any chance, does one exist? Thank you in advance for any guidance you can give me.