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by dylanbyte 2851 days ago
Is there a convenient workflow for kindle highlights - > flashcards?
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swaggyBoatswain 2851 days ago
To my knowledge, there's no kindle API

https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/68355/regardin...

Upon research, there's a few tools like https://readwise.io/ and clipping.io which are chrome extensions.

They webscrape your homepage highlights here:

https://read.amazon.com/notebook

https://read.amazon.com/kp/notebook?ft

Readwise is like evernote for kindle highlights. It sends 10 or so highlights as a daily message email.

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kristofferR 2851 days ago
https://github.com/neingeist/kindle-to-anki
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swaggyBoatswain 2851 days ago
that's a webscraper not an official api though, reading through it uses beautifulsoup.
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PowerfulWizard 2851 days ago
The best way I know to get highlights from kindle (I only use iPhone) is to click the "My Notebook" icon (looks like a letter paper page), click the export button, and then send to email. There is a notecard option there as well but I haven't tried it. Not exactly a solution but I'm mentioning it because it took me a while to notice.
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