Comments on: Improved Kindle Clippings Macro for Word

By: The Professor's Notes » Blog Archive » Get your Kindle Notes and Highlights even in the App!

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:27:42 +0000

[...] blog for any period of time knows that I love the Kindle’s highlight and notes features. I wrote a macro for the original Kindles (that works on the Kindle 2 as well) to take the text file and make it a [...]

By: Jancy

Jancy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:37:24 +0000

Thanks for such useful item. By the ways, I am also using Clippings Converter (http://www.clippingsconverter.com/) to convert my Kindle clippings to Excel or word file. I think you can also find this free software equally useful.

By: John Mellor

John Mellor — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:51:49 +0000

I tried using your original one on a Kindle 2. The update worked perfectly. Thank you John Mellor

By: Juliana

Juliana — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:00:27 +0000

Hi guys! Please help!!! I dont have a kindle. I use the apps on ipad, itouch and android. There isnt a myclippings.txt file for me, but I found the file where the highlights get stored. Its a mdb file. I can transform it to a txt file I guess. Can anyone help!?

Thanks a lot!

By: Clay Bavor

Clay Bavor — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:35:25 +0000

I wrote an even simpler tool here: http://claybavor.com/clipper/

It’s fast. No login required.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:23:13 +0000

i vouch for clippingsconverter.com

it’s too easy – takes two secs.

By: George

George — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:18:42 +0000

Also getting the compile error in a mac

LanguageID:=wdEnglishUS, SubFieldNumber:=”Paragraphs”, SubFieldNumber2:= _

With the SubFieldNumber highlighted.

By: liz

liz — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:14:18 +0000

There is a very EASY way to convert your kindle clippings into microsoft word, excel and pdf formats. The website is called:

http://www.clippingsconverter.com

This website rocks – it’s so easy to use, plus it’s for free. I use it loads, as I’m a student and like to convert my clippings into my study notes – very handy. Hope this is helpful!

By: Bartu

Bartu — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:01:16 +0000

I also use Word 2011 for Mac. Same problem here =(

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:48:14 +0000

Hi Steve.

Your macro is very helpful and it worked flawlessly on my dad’s PC but I receive a compile error when running it in Word 2011 for the Mac. “Compile error: Named argument not found” and it is highlighting SubFieldNumber:= in line 112.

Can you help? I’d gladly donate if I can get this working on my Mac.

Thanks.

By: daniele

daniele — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:57:18 +0000

Hi steve,

from my clippings file with inside example of records below:
==========
IL SENSO RELIGIOSO, VERIFICA DELLA FEDE (Julián Carrón)
- Highlight Loc. 14-15 | Added on Thursday, February 10, 2011, 03:29 PM

«coincide con quel radicale impegno del nostro io con la vita, che si documenta in queste domande» (L.
==========
La Sacra Bibbia (Con indice attivo) (Italian Edition) (Gesù Cristo)
- Highlight Loc. 4202 | Added on Saturday, February 12, 2011, 11:05 PM

sogno

the result of macro is:
for highlights of sacra bibbia I have a column of ====== but don’t have the column of text involved while
for senso religioso all is OK without column contained =====.
Here part of output of macro

========== La Sacra Bibbia (Con indice attivo) (Italian Edition) (Gesù Cristo) - Highlight Loc. 4341-42 Added on Sunday, February 13, 2011, 11:28 PM
========== La Sacra Bibbia (Con indice attivo) (Italian Edition) (Gesù Cristo) - Highlight Loc. 4344-45 Added on Sunday, February 13, 2011, 11:28 PM
IL SENSO RELIGIOSO, VERIFICA DELLA FEDE (Julián Carrón) - Highlight Loc. 104-5 Added on Thursday, February 10, 2011, 04:21 PM «Chi ci libererà da questa condizione mortale?», diremmo con san Paolo. Che cosa ci è necessario? Quale esperienza? È da questa varietà di tentativi ultimamente impotenti che ci libera Cristo.
IL SENSO RELIGIOSO, VERIFICA DELLA FEDE (Julián Carrón) - Highlight Loc. 106-7 Added on Thursday, February 10, 2011, 04:26 PM immedesimarci col Vangelo di Giovanni,

My microsoft office word 2003 SP3

and microsoft windows XP professional 2003 SP3

are PC details.

Thanks again

By: Steve Brady

Steve Brady — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:42:36 +0000

If you could just tell me which columns of data are missing I could perhaps track it down. Also, what version of Word are you using? (version and OS).

By: daniele

daniele — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:38:27 +0000

I found macro some days ago due to I’m new ereader maniac.
So in my case after run macro not all info become available I mean some columns are missing.
Please can you help me?
If you cntact me by mail I will send my clippings file and result output file unsuccessfull.
Maybe I performed a mistake but macro seems running well

Thanks a lot in advance
regards ciao
Daniele

By: The Professor's Notes » Blog Archive » How to sort Kindle Clippings file?

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:10:15 +0000

[...] information. It is truly “miscellaneous” without any clear means to sort. I have written a macro that runs in Word that will sort the clippings by book and then sort by placement in the [...]

By: Sunny

Sunny — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:44:29 +0000

This is excellent! Thank you! I have no idea how to create something like this yet I was on the road to attempting to figure out how to build some kind of database or excel spreadsheet for my kindle clippings. It seems to have worked correctly the first time around for me. However, I am wondering since this was originally posted over a year ago if there have been any updates? Thanks again for this great work!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:44:57 +0000

Have you been able to get the Kindle 3 compatibility question figured out yet? I can provide a K3 clippings file if the other person didn’t.

By: Ricardo Ernst

Ricardo Ernst — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:08:35 +0000

Actually I just run the macro with a file “my clippings” from Kindle 3 and worked fine. THANKS!!

By: Ricardo Ernst

Ricardo Ernst — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:27:34 +0000

Steve, the macro runs very well for older versions of Kindle. For version 3, it does not work. It truncates the content.

By: Ricardo Ernst

Ricardo Ernst — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:21:46 +0000

GREAT MACRO! It definitely improves the “usability” of my clippings… Thanks!

By: JRW

JRW — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:44:40 +0000

Does anyone get a syntax error when running the macro? I installed it as was said, but get a syntax error when the macro runs and this portion is in red:

Attribute VB_Name = “Kindle”

Any ideas?

By: James Shaw

James Shaw — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:44:39 +0000

Many thanks for your very helpful Macro. I bought the Kindle to do work-related reading and this makes the my clippings file far more practical

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:24:23 +0000

Steve, I just used your Macro for the first time (indeed, it was the first time I ever used any Word macro). I’m having difficulty saving the macro so that it is around the next time I open Word. That said, I appreciate you writing this and making it available.

Ted

By: Steve Brady

Steve Brady — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:38:18 +0000

If you could send me a clippings.txt file from a Kindle 3 I will gladly work on it some more and see what the problem might be.

Thankw

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:27:39 +0000

Hi, running your macro on a clipping file from the new Kindle (3.0) does not work. (Windows 7, Word 2002).

Any chance of updating it? Or perhaps it’s just me.

Regards

By: The Professor's Notes » Blog Archive » Kindle for Android Updated! Kindle again FTW!

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:48:20 +0000

[...] have written previously about the ability to highlight, and add notes. I created a VBA program/macro for word (windows only–sorry) that would export and sort the clippings file containing your [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:17:43 +0000

Thanks–this is helpful!

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:26:17 +0000

Thanks for your work. it helps me to built personal great book summaries thanks again

Pedro

By: TKC 81 James McQuivey | Covers for Kindle

TKC 81 James McQuivey | Covers for Kindle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:33:57 +0000

[...] tip – Via Andrys Basten’s Kindleworld, Steve Brady (aka The Professor) creates a Word macro (Windows only) that might bring some order to your My Clippings file. To see your highlights and [...]

By: Adam Ramshaw

Adam Ramshaw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:48:37 +0000

Steve — thanks for a great solution to a time consuming problem. I had just started down the — this is going to be easy path I’ll just text->table it, when it all came unraveled at the first carriage return in some text. This solution saved me lots time in development.

One suggestion in this section:
‘ replaces general carriage returns with spaces, hopefully identifying those fields that are still content.
With Selection.Find
.Text = “^p”
.Replacement.Text = ” ”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
End With

If you make it .Replacement.Text = “@@@” then you can go along later (after it is text->tabled) and replace the @@@ for ^p to put the carriage returns back in and return the text to its original format.

By: The Kindle Chronicles - TKC 81 James McQuivey

The Kindle Chronicles - TKC 81 James McQuivey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:51:07 +0000

By: The Definitive Kindle Guide for College Students - CollegeTimes™

The Definitive Kindle Guide for College Students - CollegeTimes™ — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:28:33 +0000

[...] Clipping Extractor Macro: This is for Windows, and is a macro for MS Word. It allows you to sort through the clippings.txt file in such a way that you can extract notes and highlights from a particular book. This can be very useful indeed when it comes to studying. [...]

By: Gary_O

Gary_O — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:14:02 +0000

Thanks for the macro! One of my favorite ways to use the Kindle is to highlight phrases that resonate with me for future pondering and research, and this macro works great to organize these highlights and notes by book. Thanks again!

By: Andrys

Andrys — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:46:11 +0000

Steve,
As ever I’m grateful for you work on this macro.

While clicking on your link to the macro text will cause the browser to show the text, there is a built-in way to save the text as a file from the browser.

With the macro text link, people should right-click on the link and, on a Windows system, choose something like “Save link as” or “Save target as” or Save File as” (depending on what the browser wording is) and that will cause the browser to suggest “kindle.bas” — accept that. (With a Mac, HOLD DOWN the mouse click and eventually a menu will come up saying “DOWNLOAD file” or something like that.)

HOWEVER, the file will be saved as “kindle.bas.txt” so people will have to rename that new file to “kindle.bas” as you suggest.

Your suggestion works but there is the danger that people may not highlight all of it.

– Andrys

By: The Definitive Kindle Guide for College Students

The Definitive Kindle Guide for College Students — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:21:29 +0000

By: Carrie Woods

Carrie Woods — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:25:32 +0000

Love the macro, thanks! Would be great if it could separate out the “date added” (without the words) so you could use Excel to filter to find only new clippings.

By: Steve Brady

Steve Brady — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:51:24 +0000

Gib

Thanks for your comment, and thanks for testing it in the older Word for Mac. Let me know how it goes!

By: Steve Brady

Steve Brady — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:50:57 +0000

Matt

You make a good point–if I have time I will try to work on better presentation of the information.

My goal wasn’t to reduce the file size, or even the number of pages, but rather to turn the collection of sequential highlights/notes into something more useable, sorted by book and positioning IN the book.

That said, several of my friends are working on a more friendly version that will hopefully run as a standalone application in Adobe Air. When that is done I will provide link/contact information.

By: Gib Wallis

Gib Wallis — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:50:28 +0000

For what it’s worth, Mac Office 2004 can run macros.

I’d prefer retaining an old version of Office to installing Windows on a Mac or running Boot Camp.

I’ll test the macro in 2004.

By: The Kindle Chronicles - 53 Mike Elgan

The Kindle Chronicles - 53 Mike Elgan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:47:06 +0000

[...] has all book notes duplicated (though interspersed with notes from other books, but she recommended a Word macro that will put the My Clipping file’s notes in order by book). Andrys was talking to another [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:08:10 +0000

Wondering if the DX renders this inaccurate? It’s an excellent idea. Based on comments above I’m wondering if it’s user error, or perhaps a Kindle DX issue.

Can anyone verify that the DX translation ends up being one huge five column table tht is sorted by book? I.e it repeats the book title as many times as there are annotations, and since it’s in column format a long book title can take 1/3 to 1/2 a page.

I expected a breakout by book with the annotations being listed using the full page…

… i’m getting 100 pages of annotations, which is just as large as the txt file in my clippings even with all the annoying dashes and spacing.

Any suggestions / help is appreciated.

By: Kindle’s Clippings Helper - review

Kindle’s Clippings Helper - review — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:39:23 +0000

[...] file actually makes the clippings readily accessible as digital text. The draw-back (and hence my writing the macro) was that it wasn’t sorted in any useful manner. It was all entered sequentially, based on [...]

By: Amazon let’s you get to the notes and clippings from the Web!

Amazon let’s you get to the notes and clippings from the Web! — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:15:19 +0000

[...] with the Kindle is the ability to highlight (and clip) text, and add notes. I went so far as to develop a Word macro (windows only, sorry Mac users). Well, Amazon has made things ‘even easier’ for [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:44:23 +0000

The promise of this Macro is just what I was looking for but having trouble loading.
I have Word 2007 and can’t save the Macro in a .bas. Can you or some help please?
Craig

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 17 May 2009 05:10:44 +0000

Thanks!
This is exactly what I was looking for. I’m a student who bought a kindle to ease the price of books, and it did. I thought the idea of saving notes would be great, but the clippings file was virtually useless the way it was. This macro is definitely a must have for kindle owners.

By: LJCohen

LJCohen — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:55:19 +0000

This macro works like a charm! I am in several writing critique groups and need to annotate the documents that I port over to my kindle to read. (computer screens are a bear to read on!). This way I can easily format my critique from the notes I take on the kindle.

Thank you very much for this!

By: OldManP

OldManP — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:23:40 +0000

Thanks for creating this macro! I bought the Kindle 2 primarily for it’s ability to export my highlights and notes to my computer (saving me hours of time inputting research). I was disappointed when I saw the format of the text file. This macro is a huge help! Thanks for posting it.