1. My friend’s Kindle is a Kindle2
2. Yes, when IN the book, you can access them via My Notes & Marks, but of course you can’t export it by book. When you go to view My Clippings ON the Kindle, the notes and highlights CONTENT are not there. Just their location references in list form. (But, she swears they “used to be there” and thinks they “disappeared somehow.” I cannot imagine that, so I am presuming they were never there.) And, just in case it appeared differently once exported, I did that on a Mac and a PC. Nothing.

Now, to add to the mystery, the notes I’ve recently added while trying to figure out her problem DO show in the MyClippings.txt file. But, the other 25 or so she’d entered previously (which DO show in the book itself) do NOT show in the MyClippings.txt file. Same with the highlights. I even got into some of her notes to “edit” them, and resaved them, thinking they might reappear. Not.

A mystery.

As for MY issues on the site itself… THANKS for giving me that link. It’s actually a BETA site, so you need the link to the secret passage way to get to it. Totally different from the standard site.

Thanks for the help!
Shelley

Let’s deal with your friend’s issue first.

I am assuming she has an actual Kindle device (Kindle 1, 2 or DX) the file should be on the device as myclippings.txt. (I assume you already know this, but want to reiterate it.) Are you trying to view the file on a computer (Windows or Mac?) and not being able to see it then? What sort of application are you using? I have been able, on a Windows machine, to open the file in Wordpad and Word. It shows me all the content when I do that. (What happens when you take the text file, load it into Word, and run my macro?) Let me know more specifics and I can see if I can help.

As for your issue–I am of course assuming you have highlighted text, and/or added notes, to at least one book (I realize you probably did, but it is always a good idea to check. Like computer troubleshooting (“It won’t turn on.” “Is it plugged in?”) I have logged on to the site myself (first time in a long time, really) and I see that they have made some changes. I would recommend that you go to http://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights and see if it shows up that way. Let me know!

2. In trying to find a work around for her, I came upon your info above, and try as I might, when I log in to my account on amazon.com and go to my Kindle area, I can view “My Collection”, but not “My Reading List”. And, in “My Collection”, there is no column noting “Content”. I cannot find the My Clippings data anywhere.

Am I doing something wrong? And, as for her issue: is it some fault of her Kindle? Do you think she should contact amazon for a fix?

Thanks.
Shelley

Re the ‘export’ feature you want — I think their terms of use used to say that we couldn’t download or print it without express permission from them (this would be to raassure the publisher/author). I haven’t looked at it since May though.

What I do is just select all of the highlight and notes for a book and then Copy and Paste them to a Word Doc. That retains the bolding for headers and makes it easier to read.

If one doesn’t have WORD, then they can highlight, copy, and paste to text (notepad or wordpad in Windows, or to whatever a Mac text file would be called) or to a favorite text editor.

This works very well. No Export option is needed.

Citations by Location should be good enough for study notes.
Amazon web (and Kindle) programming is not going to know what page location any text will be at in a book and that would depend on textbook edition anyway.

Publishers would have to take the responsibility to identify blocks of text as a book-page for the Kindle placement. Until then how is a program to know?

But we can add page notes ourselves if we have the text.

Colleges will eventually have to adapt to e-books.

I actually love this web-annotations feature. But I still use the Kindle notes lookup more since it links me to each location in the book.

– Andrys

Thanks for your kind words. I haven’t heard anything yet on that. My hope is that It will be in the first firmware update for the DX.

Hopefully we can make you your Kindle even more….