How to Export Kindle Notes and Highlights
On your Kindle, the notes and highlights you make in the ebooks and documents get saved to your account. You’ll need to export Kindle Notes and Highlights from your Kindle reader to view them in a single document or share them with others. While you may always export Notes Highlights from your Kindle, there are ways to share them from the Kindle app for iPhone, Android, Windows, and Mac.
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Export Kindle Notes and Highlights Using a PC or Mac
you’re able to connect your Kindle (regular, Paperwhite, or Oasis) to your Mac or PC to extract the Notes and Highlights directly. Here’s how you can do that:
1.Connect your Kindle to a Windows 11 PC or Mac.
2.Use theFile Explorer(Windows) orFinder(Mac) to open the Kindle’s storage.
3.Open thedocumentsfolder and copy theMy Clippings.txtfile from the Kindle storage to your Windows 11 or Mac.
The only difficult part is theMy Clippings.txtfile contains all the notes and highlights in the text form with details of the book and the time of the screenshot.
Export Kindle Notes and Highlights Using Email
Kindle ebook reader models offer quite an intuitive interface to mark notes and highlights in the books and documents you read. But when you want to view those highlights on a bigger screen, you’ll need to export them from Kindle. Unfortunately, you can’t see all your highlights under one menu or settings. That means, you can share notes highlights from each book individually and that’s quite tedious on a Kindle.Here are the steps to export highlights from Kindle:
1.Open the book or document on your Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite,or Kindle Oasis model from where you want to share the notes and highlights.
2.Tap at the top of the screen to reveal a toolbar.
3.On the toolbar, tap on thenotebook(binder) icon to view the Notes and Highlights for the book.
4.Tap theShareicon in the top-righer corner of the Notes and Highlights view.
5.On the Export Notes pop-up, tap onSend.
After that Amazon will send all those Notes and Highlights to your kindle.com email address. All those Notes and Highlights appear in a file calledYour Clippingson your Kindle.
Note that some books will limit the number of Notes and Highlights you may export from a book.
Export Kindle Notes and Highlights From the Kindle Website
Amazon has a dedicated Kindle for Web to view and export your Notes and Highlights from your Kindle. You’ll need to use your Amazon account details if you’re using it for the first time.
1.Open the Kindle for Web site in a browser tab. You might need to sign in with your Amazon account details.
Visit:Kindle for Web
2.Click the Notes and Highlights section from the left sidebar.
3.That’ll open your Notebook containing Notes & Highlights in a new browser tab. From the left sidebar, you can scroll or search for a specific book. On the right pane, you’ll find the relevant highlight and you can click onOptionsto delete or add a note to it.
Take Those Notes and Highlights Anytime
These are the best ways to take your Notes and Highlights from your Kindle. Of course, you may use the official Kindoel app forAndroid,iPhone,iPad,Windows, andMacto take out the Notes & Highlights too.
Did you know that you canget Kindle books for free? Refer to our list of bestKindle tips and tricks.
Samir Makwana
Samir Makwana helps with edits, works on content strategy, and writes (whenever time permits) about Windows, macOS, iPhone, and other tech in general. Before moving to features and tutorials, he wrote news for years and reviewed software and hardware products ranging from audio gear to computers.
