Now according to the people that created the MBP reader, Amazon changed the file type in response to this. Just double-click and it’ll create a bunch of txt files containing the highlights for each book.
You can copy them over to your computer and then use this little program, MBP Reader, (place it in the same folder as your highlights) to extract them. Highlights are stored inside these alongside your books with each file corresponding to a book. The better method is getting them from the. There is of course the Clippings.txt but this file is ONLY updated if you make a highlight from your kindle, which makes it useless if you read anywhere else as well. The new method I found is as far as I know almost undocumented and will work from any iOS device, possibly even Android. There is a way to export your personal document highlights from your kindle itself and I’ll go over it quickly, but I don’t know if it works with newer kindles.
If you try to search for how to do this most of the guides are about this method which is useless for personal documents. Technically with Amazon you can sort of export highlights if you bought the books from them (it’s easy to access them in a way that lets you copy), but not your personal documents. I’ve considered getting a different ereader brand next time (the Keyboard is seriously outdated at this point) but none have good sync options. That, not being able to access personal docs on the Windows Kindle app, and the fact that you can’t scroll in the Kindle app have always made me want to ditch it, but no other app can sync with my Kindle… sigh. Acrobat can’t do this!Īnd for ebooks, the Kindle can’t do this either! I don’t know why.
For example, the only way I can really get highlights from a PDF is by going through Goodreader. One would think this would be a really obvious feature in any app that allows hghlighting. Unfortunately there aren’t that many devices/apps capable of syncing and exporting highlights. But I also do a lot of research so I need that feature. I love highlighting in books, makes finding favorite passages easier. EDIT: Amazon has finally added the ability to export notes and highlights by email.