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1.Select the 'Apps' tab at the top and scroll to the bottom of the window. 2.Select an e-book reading app from the list on the left. For example, if you use the Kindle app for e-reading, you will see it listed. 3.Drag and drop the files you wish to transfer to your computer from the window on the right. What Is A Kindle Reader For Mac? Good news is you can read Kindle books on Mac, using the Kindle Mac app. What you need to do here is download Kindle for Mac and all your previous electronic Amazon book purchases will become instantly available on your desktop or laptop. To download Kindle app on Mac for free.
Although I am still mainly an old-fashioned print book aficionado, I am slowly becoming attracted to the idea of eBooks. I like the idea of having thousands of books in my pocket, and I especially like being able to export Kindle notes and iBook notes from what I have read.
Preferring to have a foot in both worlds, I have an iPad so I can read ePUB books on iBooks, and the iOS Kindle app to read Amazon’s offerings.
While I read, I use the highlighting feature to highlight passages, as you would with a pen and a print book. The tablet also enables you to attach virtual post-it notes to your highlights.
How To Export Kindle Notes And iBook Notes From Your iPad
Here is how to easily get those highlights and notes off your eBook reader when you are done reading on your iPad. I will also show you a couple of other methods.
iBooks comes pre-installed with iOS devices, but you can now uninstall most standard Apple apps. If you decided to uninstall iBooks in the past, you can redownload it here. Likewise, the Kindle app for iOS is here. Both are free.
Apple iBooks
I have just finished Tim Ferriss’ Tools Of Titans (after 6 months!), and as usual, Tim had a lot of good stuff to share. That means lots of highlights and notes. Time to get them out of the iBooks app and into somewhere I can use them.
First, click the hamburger icon in the top left hand corner. If you don’t see it, tap on the screen and it will come up.
On the screen that appears, three tabs are at the top – Contents, Bookmarks, and Notes. Click on Notes.
Now you will see all the notes and highlights you made in the book. To get them out of the Kindle app, click “Edit Notes“.
In the top left hand corner, it will say “Select All“. Assuming you want ALL the notes out, click “Select All” and every note gets a tick next to it. Otherwise, click “Select All” then go down the list and untick the ones you don’t want exported.
Once you have decided what you want exported, click “Share” in the top left hand corner. This will drop down a box with various sharing options. Yours may slightly vary depending on what relevant apps you have installed on your tablet.
I always find that email is the easiest option, so I always go for that one. You may decide to save the notes in a document in Dropbox or iCloud Drive. Everybody has their own preferences.
If you click “Mail“, an email box will come up with all of your book notes and highlights already automatically pre-populated in the email window.
Note however that you must have the iOS Mail app already set up and configured. I will show you at the end of the article how to do that if you don’t already know.
You can copy and paste the notes from the email into a word processing document.
Exporting From MacOS iBooks
There is also an iBooks app for the MacOS (available through the Mac App Store). If you are one of those weird people who like to read their books on a big computer screen, you can export your notes and highlights from there too.
Open up the book in iBooks, and in the top-left corner, click the far-right notes icon. This opens up the notes.
Click in one of the notes or highlights to highlight it. Then press the key combination CMD and A to select ALL the notes and highlights. Then press CMD and C to copy them all to the MacOS clipboard.
Now open a text editing program such as Pages, LibreOffice, or TextEdit. Press CMD and V to paste the contents of the clipboard into the document.
Kindle
Kindle is slightly more involved than Apple iBooks, as you will soon see. But it is not overly complicated.
When the book is open, tap on the screen to bring up the title bar. Now click on the notes icon, third from the right.
You will now see all of your notes and highlights. Click the sharing icon in the top-right corner to select which export option you would much rather have.
Kindle disappoints in this regard, in that you only get two options, and the “flashcards” option sucks in my opinion. So, email it is.
This is now where things start to get a bit awkward. Unlike iBooks, Kindle imposes a strict maximum on how much of the book you can highlight. It’s obviously to stop people highlighting all of the book and exporting it.
This means that if you go over 10%, the Export option will be greyed out and made unavailable. So you will have to go back into the book, and remove any non-essential highlights to get below the magic 10%. This is harder than it sounds if you have a lot of highlighted passages.
Once you have got below 10% – and the Export option turns blue – the next step is to choose the “Citation Style”. Why does Amazon have to needlessly complicate everything?
Assuming you can live without your Chicago Style and not break down if you don’t get MLA, choose “None” then press Export.
But wait, Jeff Bezos hasn’t stopped messing with you yet. He has one more dirty trick up his sleeve. The book is exported as a HTML attachment! Yes, a webpage.
If you download the HTML file from your email inbox, and click it, it will open up in your default browser. As you can see, it is not exactly pretty.
You can copy and paste the text into a word processing document, and get rid of the terrible HTML file.
Exporting Kindle Notes From Amazon.com
It is less known among Kindle readers that you can actually view your notes inside the Amazon website itself.
One caveat to note up-front is that it will only show you the notes for books you have legally bought. If you are given a MOBI format book by someone (MOBI is a DRM-less file format compatible with Kindle), you can send it to Kindle and read it there without any problems. But because Amazon will have no record of you buying it from them, your notes and highlights will not show up.
Assuming the book is legal, sign into Amazon’s Kindle section. At the top, click on Your Highlights. This will bring up all of your books and everything you have highlighted in them.
The signup page is the same, whether your Amazon/Kindle account is registered in the USA, UK, France, Germany, wherever. Now copy the notes and paste them into a word processing document.
Setting Up Apple Mail
If you decide to export the notes using the email option, you will need the Mail app pre-configured. Here’s how to quickly do it in iOS and Mac. The iOS version is the same for both the iPhone and iPad.
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iOS
Go to Settings–>Mail–>Accounts and tap Add Account. Choose your desired account and log in.
Mac Kindle App Notebooks Review
Once you are logged in, make sure the Mail option is turned on.
You can now send email using the Mail app on iOS. However, you will have to repeat the process if you have more than one iOS device. Your login settings are not stored on iCloud.
MacOS
Go to System Preferences and choose Internet Accounts. Choose your desired email service and log in.
When you’ve logged in, click on it in the left-hand column. On the right, you can see the different functions you can assign that email address to do on your Mac. Make sure “Mail” is checked.
Once you have checked Mail, you can now send email with the Mail app.
Conclusion
Nobody knows if eBooks will ultimately spell the end of print books. Everytime we write the obituary for print books, they come back to life like Lazarus. Indeed, print sales are once again surpassing eBook sales.
But if Kindle and iBooks start loading nice new features into their reading apps, people will start to feel the urge to break away from their print books and fully embrace digital. It’s the same as always – people always like new toys to play with.
If you know of another way to export your notes and highlights, let us know in the comments.
Amazon’s Kindle is a great reading platform with a number of useful annotation features, but sometimes it’s not enough.
I recently updated my four-year-old post on Kindle annotation tools, and I realized it was time to do this post as well. Much has changed in the past couple years since this post was first published; Amazon has added new features to the Kindle platform and some of the tools I found then are no longer supported by their developers (in fact, one or two tools in this post were simply abandoned and had their domains snapped up by gay porn sites).
That older post focused heavily on Amazon tools like the email export features in the Kindle apps for iOS and Android (which are now available on the Kindle and Kindle Fire). This post covers just non-Amazon tools you can use to manage your Kindle clippings.
There are a wide variety of tools out there, including some as simple as the one that converts your myclippings text file into a CSV. (That sounds strange, I know, but if you use spreadsheets a lot then this would be a great first step.)
OneNote Clipper
Microsoft’s note-taking app has a tool where you can clip a webpage and import it into a notebook. Evernote has a similar tool, and you can use them to snag your notes and highlights by going to kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights and clipping the page.
To be honest, I don’t find either tool very useful; they grab the whole page rather than the key parts. A more focused tool would be better.
So I went out and found a bunch.
Evernote Exporter
This is a bookmarklet-based tool that is designed to take your my clippings text file and spit out an EML file you can import into Evernote.
Kindle Notebook App
It used to work, but no longer does. I like the idea, though, so I am hoping someone will take it over and get it running again.
Kindle to Evernote
K2E is a Chrome app that will automatically upload your Kindle Notes and highlights to Evernote.It costs $1 a month. I don’t think it’s worth it, but (to name one example) I can see how an author might want to use this type of automation with their beta readers. This tool has not been updated since 2015.
Bookcision
This tool is installed as a bookmarklet, and you use it by clicking the bookmarklet while visiting the book’s page on read.amazon.com.
Bookcision will reformat the page so you have a cleaner view of your notes, and you can then copy them to notepad (Chrome users can also download them).
And if you are using macOS, you (might) have an alternative: Notescraper.
Calibre
Everyone knows that calibre is an ebook conversion and library management app, but sometimes some of its features are overlooked. For example, it can manage the ebooks on your Kindle – and it can also collect and organize your annotations.
And it’s not the only app with this feature.
DaleyKlippings
This is an open source software package that helps you import your Kindle’s “My Clippings.txt” into other programs. The system can be customized to output files in a wide variety of formats. This tool has not been updated since 2014.
KindleMate
Kindle Mate is a neat tool with rich features designed to sync, organize, import & export Kindle clippings (Kindle highlights and notes) and Kindle Vocabulary Builder words on your computer. This tool has not been updated since 2017.
Klib
This macOS-only app lets you import your notes from a myclippings file or from Kindle.Amazon.com. Once you have them you can manage them in the app, or export them in Evernote or Markdown formats. You can also use the app to open Kindle for macOS and read the note or highlight in the ebook it came from.
Clippings.io
This web-based service can integrate with your Kindle account and automatically import your notes (via a $2 Chrome extension). You can also automatically import the notes from your Kindle, or the the Kindle apps for iOS and Android.
Once you have the notes you can share them online, or export them in a variety of file formats. You can even automatically export them to Evernote.
Notebook For Kindle
Snippet
This service (which I first found as a Chrome extension) is a general purpose note and highlight manager. It can import your Kindle notes, but it also has extensions for all the major (as well as Safari). You can use those extensions to clip web content and essentially make an online notebook.
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Readwise
This is another annotation management tool. It just crossed my desk this evening, but I am told by its developer that Readwise uses a browser extension to automatically download your Kindle highlights from the cloud. It also works with Apple Books, Instapaper, Highly, and Medium (for articles), and other platforms.