[GUI Plugin] Annotations

[tsundoku]

Actually, I just found another workaround that works even better in my case. Sharing it here in case it helps anyone else. The problem with getting annotations from Amazon's https://read.amazon.com/notebook page is that they only include annotations from books bought from Amazon. Annotations for "personal documents" (i.e. any content added to your Kindle account that wasn't bought from Amazon) don't appear, although Amazon does capture them and synchronize them between your devices. If you run the Kindle iOS app, it now has a new feature that allows you to export your "Notebook" (all the notes and annotations for a given book/document across devices) and send it as an .html file in email. (I'm guessing we have the new Kindle Scribe to thank for this.) This file opens in the browser and contains all your annotations for a given book which can be easily copy/pasted into Calibre.

[Bunker D]

So… Any new alternative existing or on it's way?

From what I understand (correct me if I'm mistaking), this extension is not working with the native annotation system of Calibre. It also seem to suffer from maintenance issue and be on it's way to deprecation.

I am looking for an alternative to import annotations within the Calibre annotation system itself. Is there anything doing that at this point?
Or do you know if there is work done on the topic?

I'm not opposed to programming some stuff by myself. That being said, I don't know where to start. Is there an API to add annotations, or should I directly edit the

metadata.opf

to add the annotations there? I'd have to compute the EPUB CFI for each highlights. Is there an API to search through the book, or should I crack open the EPUB? How? Any lead to compute the CFI then?

All in all, if you have some pointers, thank you.

[theducks]

Metadata.opf is just a BACKUP of what you see in the Library view for a book.
Making changes to that does NOT change the DB
and
Any change that affects the library entry will result in that file being replaced.

It has no effect on the book without further processing

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Bunker D

So… Any new alternative existing or on it's way?

From what I understand (correct me if I'm mistaking), this extension is not working with the native annotation system of Calibre. It also seem to suffer from maintenance issue and be on it's way to deprecation.

I am looking for an alternative to import annotations within the Calibre annotation system itself. Is there anything doing that at this point?
Or do you know if there is work done on the topic?

I'm not opposed to programming some stuff by myself. That being said, I don't know where to start. Is there an API to add annotations, or should I directly edit the

metadata.opf

to add the annotations there? I'd have to compute the EPUB CFI for each highlights. Is there an API to search through the book, or should I crack open the EPUB? How? Any lead to compute the CFI then?

All in all, if you have some pointers, thank you.

Start here ==>> Customizing calibre with plugins

That'll lead you to an overview, walkthroughs of the different types of plugins, and eventually to the calibre API.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

grep the source code for cfi and annotations you will find the existing code for parsing/creating/updating them. If you have questions about the code feel free to ask and I will try to answer.