

If you have a Kobo and you’re hoping for an easy way to export your highlights and annotations so you can view them in a. If you find any other solutions, please add them in the comments and I will look into them. I will continue to search for alternatives and update this post with more information. Here is the link for the discussion regarding the plugin if you have any concerns. You can also hit the ‘I’ key to bring up the book details. I like to right click the book and select Show Book details for a larger view. Now when you select a book, you should be able to see the annotations. Click Import Annotations once you are ready. At this point you can select which books you want to export annotations from. Open the Annotations plugin and select Fetch annotations from connected device.ġ3. Connect your Kobo device to your computer via the appropriate cable.ġ2. Click OK on both of the dialog boxes shown below and then restart Calibre.ġ1. This step ensures that there is a dedicated Annotations column.ġ0. By default, the annotations will appear in the Comments column once exported. Type “Annotations” and click Add custom column. Open the Wizard by clicking the wand button.ĩ. You should now see the Annotations plugin on the right side of the header bar. Click into Filter by name and type “ Annotations“.ĥ. Go to the top bar and select calibre > Preferences > Plugins (under the Advanced heading).Ĥ. Download Calibre if you haven’t already.Ģ. I’ve kept the original instructions for the first exportation method at the bottom of this post in case it starts working again.ġ. Once again, I have a Mac, so it may be a bit different if you’re running Windows. txt file like the other method, but it does get your annotations onto your computer where you can copy and paste them. Unfortunately this doesn’t result in a neat little. Here are instructions for a workaround using Calibre and the Annotations plugin.

Several commenters alerted me to the fact that, since a recent update, the original set of instructions can result in truncated highlights and annotations once exported (i.e., incomplete text where only part of the highlight is present followed by “…”).
