Backing up highlights/notes/bookmarks on Kindle 3

granturissimus · 10-13-2011, 05:36 AM

i reset my kindle 3 once, and it deleted all my highlights and notes as well as books. i put the books back but all the notes were gone.

how do i backup my highlights and notes so that if i reset my kindle back to factory setting that i can get those things back again?

i notice in the kindle there is an option for "annotation backup" which i enabled. does that mean my notes/highlights/bookmarks/page numbers are all stored on the amazon cloud and can be retrieved if my kindle is reset?

susan_cassidy · 10-13-2011, 11:55 AM

It is very rare that someone has to do a factory reset. Normally, a soft reset is sufficient to fix problems.

If you have annotations syncing turned on, and have sync'ed since you made the notes/highlights, when you re-download the book, the highlights should be there.

Otherwise, you would have to back up the files on your Kindle, along with the .mbp files that contain the annotations.

10-13-2011, 05:36 AM	#1
granturissimus Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle 3 WiFi	Backing up highlights/notes/bookmarks on Kindle 3 i reset my kindle 3 once, and it deleted all my highlights and notes as well as books. i put the books back but all the notes were gone. how do i backup my highlights and notes so that if i reset my kindle back to factory setting that i can get those things back again? i notice in the kindle there is an option for "annotation backup" which i enabled. does that mean my notes/highlights/bookmarks/page numbers are all stored on the amazon cloud and can be retrieved if my kindle is reset?

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10-13-2011, 11:55 AM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	It is very rare that someone has to do a factory reset. Normally, a soft reset is sufficient to fix problems. If you have annotations syncing turned on, and have sync'ed since you made the notes/highlights, when you re-download the book, the highlights should be there. Otherwise, you would have to back up the files on your Kindle, along with the .mbp files that contain the annotations.

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