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07-14-2016, 07:42 PM | #1 |
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KoboNotes.com, a new website to extract/organize your kobo highlights and annotations
Hello everybody. I've been reading with my Kobo Aura for more than one year now. It is the best thing I ever bought.
While reading, I enjoy taking notes for later and so I take a lot of highlights and annotations. Unfortunately, I didn't find a note extractor that I fully enjoyed. Most of them either you have to have programming skills or/and the notes appear out of order (not the creation date/book order that I would like to have) and that is really annoying. That's why I developed a website to extract the notes from your Kobo eReader. I would like to invite you to give it a try at www.thekobonotes.com Features:
To use Kobo Notes, connect first your Kobo to the PC. Upload to the website your "KoboReader.sqlite" file, located on your Kobo in the folder ".kobo". Then choose one of your books with notes and start reading them anywhere and from any device! Somethings could be better designed, I have no doubt. But as a beginner web developer, this was my solution. Feel free to use Kobo Notes. If you have any question about it, any bug to report or if you want Kobo Notes to have any new feature, please contact me! Kobo Notes is free. Nonetheless, if you wish to support this project, and help me pay for the server costs, please follow the link located at the bottom of Kobo Notes page. Thank you in advance I hope you find value in having your notes organized like this. Enjoy Last edited by fferreira; 09-22-2019 at 06:17 PM. |
07-14-2016, 08:26 PM | #2 |
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Please don't spam the forums. This is the third post I've seen from you on this topic.
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07-14-2016, 08:30 PM | #3 |
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Sorry, you're right. I will not do it again. I was just trying to provide a new tool to the community and spread the message and got overexcited :P. Sorry once again.
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Of course, I can't work out exactly how useful it is without doing that load. Maybe if you load a demo set of books and annotations we can get an idea of how useful the site is. And just to check, my current database is 108MB. That's for about 2500 books. Are you ready for databases larger than that? |
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I've tested it and it works. If you decide to use this website and somehow it does not upload your file, just let me know. |
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The main comment is that it is only showing the highlighted text. Any annotation added to the highlight text is lost, as is the location in the book. Quote:
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07-15-2016, 06:55 AM | #7 | ||
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Well, I know that my website has that drawback. Being honest again, I don't even know if you could do anything wrong with the user's database. Nevertheless, I hope the community could appreciate the advantages of using kobonotes.com. It is relatively fast, you can have no programming skills, and then you can save your data and read them anywhere. Quote:
Again, the test login is: testkobonotes@gmail.com and password: test The annotations, if they exist, appear right besides the highlighted text that the belong to. I hope I helped. |
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07-15-2016, 11:43 AM | #8 |
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What about giving the source? I can use it on my own machine then. Privacy is an issue here.
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07-15-2016, 12:19 PM | #10 |
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I understand your worries. I have no way to prove that I'm honest about this application. And I will not give my source code because of the work I had developing it.
If privacy is important for you, I can understand why you would not use kobonotes.com. I can only say that I don't see any of your files. But I have no way to prove that. Sorry. But privacy is an issue anywhere on the internet. If you have facebook accounts, and instagram, or even if you have a kindle and upload your annotations data through a number of websites that currently exists, you would have the privacy issue also. I am only providing a solution that currently lacks for Kobo and has been developed already for Kindle. But, once again, if privacy, for you, is extremely important, I totally understand. I cannot prove to you that I would not use your information for other uses besides showing you the notes. Last edited by fferreira; 07-15-2016 at 12:23 PM. |
07-18-2016, 10:13 PM | #11 |
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The last thing I want is being misunderstood with Kobo Notes. I don't use any of your data besides checking what books with notes you have, and showing your highlights and annotations. I just made a Q&A (http://www.kobonotes.com/qa.php) to make this more clear.
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07-19-2016, 03:28 AM | #12 |
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@fferreira: Addressing the privacy concerns in the Q&A should go a long way. I assume you delete the database as soon as you have extracted the annotations. If so, I would suggest that you state this as well.
Also, what happens if I upload the database a second time? Do you replace the current set of annotations with those from the new copy? Or are you merging them somehow? |
07-19-2016, 12:42 PM | #13 | |
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"Furthermore, once the file is uploaded, I delete all information presented in this database that has nothing to do with your notes (such as your userID). I delete all tables and columns that I don't use and that may contain your most personal information. In the end, I save a very simplified version of the .sqlite file that you uploaded. If you upload your data a second time, the previous one will be deleted." So, I delete everything besides the text presented on the notes, the books that you read (the titles) and some columns just to organize note's data, such as the creation date of each annotation or highlight. If there is something missing from the Q&A, please let me know. Thank you very much! |
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07-20-2016, 01:15 AM | #14 |
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I will write a simple script that deletes them on my side. I can upload afterwards.
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07-27-2016, 10:54 AM | #15 | |
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I keep columns "ContentID,ContentType,MimeType,BookTitle,Title,At tribution,Description,DateCreated,DateLastRead,Vol umeIndex,ReadStatus,Series,Subtitle,WordCount,Date Added" from table content and columns "BookmarkID,VolumeID,ContentID,Text,Annotation,Ext raAnnotationData,DateCreated,ChapterProgress,Hidde n,DateModified,SyncTime,Published" from table Bookmark. Besides saving columns related to notes, such as "Text", I also save some others for organizations such as DateModified, or Series, or ReadStatus. |
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