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by solarkraft 1590 days ago
The idea looks amazing. I'm still looking for something that allows me to highlight stuff on web pages, preferably on my e-reader. My current way of accomplishing this is by running a page through Mercury Parser, turning it into an epub, syncing it to my reader and reading it with KOReader.

It would be nice if the whole process was easier, especially getting the highlights back.
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roznoshchik 1590 days ago
This was roughly what I wanted as well. I had a Onyx Boox e ink tablet. I was adding sites to lurnby and then reading them on the Boox to use the Lurnby features. But the Boox was just too slow and unresponsive for this type of thing, I was really unsatisfied at some point.

How do you get the highlights back currently?

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solarkraft 1590 days ago
> But the Boox was just too slow and unresponsive

Consider me surprised! I find mine (Nova 2) very fast. The e-ink page turns are kind of uncomfortably fast, even (recently realized I prefer my old Kindle's slower blending). Admittedly the UI can be a little quirky sometimes, which I suppose is what bothers you.

> How do you get the highlights back currently?

I use Syncthing for two-way sync, so that's how the highlights land back on my computer. Buuuuut ... I don't do anything with them. I recently discovered that the KOReader highlight data format isn't that great anyway, so I still wonder if there's some kind of standard format for processing them further.

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roznoshchik 1590 days ago
Yeah, I think it's just about starting the thing up. It takes like 30 seconds to wake up and become responsive, and then indeed the UI was a bit unintuitive sometimes, so overall it leaves a lot to be desired. I think it's decent as a digital paper, and was decent to read in through the native pdf viewer and stuff, but using the android functions just weren't great.

Re the highlights

How would you want to process them? Are you turning them into flashcards or just adding to a doc somewhere?

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smeej 1586 days ago
Not the person you were replying to, but I've been after something like this for quite awhile too.

I use Logseq as my external brain for everything else, but am having a lot of trouble finding a good way to get my highlights and annotations from epubs into it. It has a great cloze feature with flashcards for reviewing things. It can also do highlights and notes from PDFs natively, which is awesome, but I'm a voracious epub reader on my Onyx Boox Poke 2 Color.

KOReader works great on it, but I really need something that would export my notes in md. I don't need it to do so on a daily basis. It'd be fine for it to be at the end of reading the book. But if it COULD export the notes on a daily basis with a block reference to the book title, that'd be even better.

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roznoshchik 1586 days ago
Hey, Logseq looks really cool. I really love that there are so many options nowadays for knowledge management.

It's interesting to hear from more people that their onyx device works great, I've really struggled with making mine a part of my workflow. Also, I had no idea they now had color options. That's kinda cool!

Re the export to MD. I don't see that as a problem, the question really is about file formatting.

1. Do you have an example md file that's formatted in a way that would work for importing to logseq?

2. Export on a daily basis - would this go via api to somewhere? Or manually send you a download file on a daily basis? What's the idea here?

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