showing highlights made on Kindle in Calibre

stroks · 06-18-2016, 07:12 PM

Good evening everybody,

I've uploaded a book to my Kindle Paperwhite, using Calibre and made some highlights using the device. Then I wanted to download the book back to my PC as a file where the highlights made on device are seen as highlights in the file. So I connected Kindle to the PC, opened the book in Calibre viewer and happily found all my highlights there, marked in yellow. And then I saved this file in a separate directory on my PC, disconnected Kindle, opened the saved file, and found my highlights disappeared! And then, whatever way I tried to open that book in Calibre again, including re-loading it from Kindle, it never showed me the highlights. But on the device, they are still on place. Very strange.
Does anybody know where the problem might be and how to download an ebook file with highlights from Kindle?

Thank you.

theducks · 06-18-2016, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stroks

Good evening everybody,

I've uploaded a book to my Kindle Paperwhite, using Calibre and made some highlights using the device. Then I wanted to download the book back to my PC as a file where the highlights made on device are seen as highlights in the file. So I connected Kindle to the PC, opened the book in Calibre viewer and happily found all my highlights there, marked in yellow. And then I saved this file in a separate directory on my PC, disconnected Kindle, opened the saved file, and found my highlights disappeared! And then, whatever way I tried to open that book in Calibre again, including re-loading it from Kindle, it never showed me the highlights. But on the device, they are still on place. Very strange.
Does anybody know where the problem might be and how to download an ebook file with highlights from Kindle?

Thank you.

Calibre does not support Annotations display (any device).
There may be specific USER supplied Plugins for a particular brand. They do NOT work across brands as there are no standards.

stroks · 06-20-2016, 04:55 PM

theducks, thanks for your reply. I will search for those plugins. There should be some since this device is a popular one.

davidfor · 06-21-2016, 07:31 PM

Unfortunately, it has little to do with how popular the device is. The main thing is if someone has written a method to pull the annotations of the device in a way that matches how you want to use them. It also requires that the annotations are somewhere on the device that an external application can reach.

I maintain the Annotations plugin which can fetch annotations from Kindles. But, it stores them in a text field in the calibre library. They can be appended to the comments field or put in a custom column. But, there is no connection back to the text in the book. The annotations are fetched from the clippings file. People have suggested getting them from another file (an sdr?) but, reading this is not as simple as the clippings file. And as I have no Kindle to test with, it isn't practical for me to do it.

For adding the annotations into the book, I haven't heard of any method that does this. And I have never heard of the calibre viewer displaying them. Kovid has plans to implement better bookmarking/annotations in the calibre viewer, but I don't expect to see that any time soon.

06-18-2016, 07:12 PM	#1
stroks Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2016 Device: kindle paperwhite	showing highlights made on Kindle in Calibre Good evening everybody, I've uploaded a book to my Kindle Paperwhite, using Calibre and made some highlights using the device. Then I wanted to download the book back to my PC as a file where the highlights made on device are seen as highlights in the file. So I connected Kindle to the PC, opened the book in Calibre viewer and happily found all my highlights there, marked in yellow. And then I saved this file in a separate directory on my PC, disconnected Kindle, opened the saved file, and found my highlights disappeared! And then, whatever way I tried to open that book in Calibre again, including re-loading it from Kindle, it never showed me the highlights. But on the device, they are still on place. Very strange. Does anybody know where the problem might be and how to download an ebook file with highlights from Kindle? Thank you.

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06-20-2016, 04:55 PM	#3
stroks Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2016 Device: kindle paperwhite	theducks, thanks for your reply. I will search for those plugins. There should be some since this device is a popular one.

06-21-2016, 07:31 PM	#4
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	Unfortunately, it has little to do with how popular the device is. The main thing is if someone has written a method to pull the annotations of the device in a way that matches how you want to use them. It also requires that the annotations are somewhere on the device that an external application can reach. I maintain the Annotations plugin which can fetch annotations from Kindles. But, it stores them in a text field in the calibre library. They can be appended to the comments field or put in a custom column. But, there is no connection back to the text in the book. The annotations are fetched from the clippings file. People have suggested getting them from another file (an sdr?) but, reading this is not as simple as the clippings file. And as I have no Kindle to test with, it isn't practical for me to do it. For adding the annotations into the book, I haven't heard of any method that does this. And I have never heard of the calibre viewer displaying them. Kovid has plans to implement better bookmarking/annotations in the calibre viewer, but I don't expect to see that any time soon.

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