A technology thing. I am getting increasingly annoyed with the process of getting notes I take on a Kindle back out of the device and into posts on this blog. The problems are numerous, but:
- Notes aren’t returned with any context
- Notes aren’t available in a sensible format
- The web page they show up on is very, very slow to load
- There are DRM restrictions about how much you can quote, trampling all over fair use
- Notes on documents I upload myself aren’t identified to the document in any way
At the moment, I find it actually more effective to take notes on paper. This is why the Symbian/Android/David Wood post and the one on William Langewiesche’s AF447 piece are dragging. It’s especially annoying that although the way you get ad-hoc documents in is via e-mail, you can’t use the subject line or the message body to give the document a title.
Can anyone recommend apps that address this?
I didn’t find one yet. If you do find something that makes getting notes and quotes out of Kindle more palatable, please let us all know!
That could be a project, couldn’t it?
Aye. It could be. I’m stacked until about mid-Dec, but I could be up for thinking about it after that.
The notes can be exported as one lump, I seem to remember. I can only say that I saw only three routes available to me:
1) Buying the hugely expensive Sony Digital Paper thingie (priced at about 800 euros),
2) Installing Duokan on the Kindle (information about it can be found on mobileread) or
3) switching away from the Kindle – which I did. My recommended alternative is a reader from Pocketbook, which costs no more than the Kindle. A detailed comparison of the two can be found on allesebook.de.
look what I found – https://www.clippings.io/