Can the New Kindle Export Text?
Amazon's Kindle reader, while engineered for reading documents, also allows you minimal text creation ability. You can take notes within your books, and third-party apps allow further note-taking. Once you have created text on the Kindle, you can export these notes as text files to your computer.
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My Clippings
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The only text generated on a Kindle without apps are the notes you take within a book. These notes, along with your bookmarks and highlights, are saved in a text file called My Clippings. All of the notes and highlights you make, regardless of the book, are in the My Clippings file. Therefore, if you wish to be able to read or export the notes relevant to only one book, this can only be done if these are your only notes.
Exporting
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The My Clippings file can be exported onto your computer. To do this, connect your Kindle to your computer's USB port. It should appear as a removable storage device. If it does not, unplug it and plug it in again. Within the Kindle folder on your computer, all of your books are contained in the "documents" subfolder. The My Clippings text file is under this folder. You can access this and export it to your computer's hard drive.
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Other Texts
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The other books on your Kindle are also visible within the "documents" subfolder. These can also be exported onto your computer's hard drive. However, most of these documents will not be text files. Instead, they will often be AZW files; this is Amazon's proprietary Kindle format. To read these files on your computer, you will need a conversion program that can convert the files to text or an Amazon Kindle App for your computer.
Apps
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Some Apps for the Kindle, such as Notepad and Calendar, allow you to create and save text. The text you save in these programs, will be in the .active-content-data folder. Depending on the specific app you used to create text, however, it may be nested in many subfolders or in a format other than text.
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