Wednesday, November 3, 2010

"My Clippings" is killing me!

Ok, I love and hate the "My Clippings.txt" file the Kindle creates as I highlight text in a book.

I love it because it lets me highlight important things in a book and copy that into papers I write in school.  It even stores the comments I type with my highlights.

I hate it because it puts all the highlights from all my books in one file.
If I delete a book, the notes remain.
The notes are mixed together.  I read book A, then book B, and back to book A.  My notes are mixed together and I need to try and find all the notes from book A....

Amazon can fix this - put notes for each book in a different file.  Asking for Amazon to keep the notes sequential by the location number would be great, but I'll take what I can get!

Ok, I sent this idea off to Amazon, and they're saying they will forward it to the development team.  And while looking at Amazon's web site, I found a way around this!  Some of my other "suggestions" were put into the version 2.5 Kindle software, so I think they DO listen!

There is a web site "kindle.amazon.com" and when I sign in, I can see AND edit my notes.  When I sync my Kindle,  they show up on the Kindle too.  I can also display all the notes for a particular book.  It's not quite as cool as having it in the "My Clippings.txt" file, but it's better than what I spend a few hours organizing today!

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