Select the book’s entry in Zotero, click the clip, and select “Attach Snapshot to Current Page”:.As described above, find your book’s highlights on.Still, it can be a very convenient way to capture your annotations fast. Because the “highlights” web page dynamically loads highlights from the next book in your Kindle collection, the resulting snapshot might at times contain additional notes and highlights (and thus pollute Zotero’s search results). If you don’t need to edit/further process your notes and can live with some “fuzziness,” you can also directly attach the web page found at the Kindle site to your book entry in Zotero. Clicking on an embedded link starts the Kindle app and opens the book at the location where the highlight/note is located:Īn even faster way if you can live with some ”fuzziness”.Right-click the note entry and select “Generate Report.” This creates a simple web page containing all highlights and notes, and now the links are clickable:.Just click directly on links in the note instead of the report. linking to OneNote, Evernote, etc.), except the ones that ask to generate a report continue to apply. You can now, for example, keep a Zotero note open next to your Kindle app and navigate from there directly to the book location corresponding to the highlight / annotation. Clicking on a link now opens a menu from which you can directly get to the target. Update April 21, 2014: With the latest update, Zotero 4.0.19, it is no longer necessary to generate a report to make links in notes active (i.e., clickable). This is due to a limitation of the built-in editor. While you can maintain active links in a Zotero note, they are not directly clickable. Clicking on them should open the Kindle app on your computer and navigate directly to the location containing the highlighted/annotated passage. What is really neat is that the highlights and notes contain links. This will open the notes editor in which you paste your annotations from the clipboard (e.g., right mouse paste):.Click on the tab “Notes,” and then click on “Add”: Now you can add these annotations as a child note to the book entry in Zotero.(Be careful not to include highlights and notes for the following book in your library.)
#How find highlights in kindle ebook windows#
Select all highlights and notes for your book, and copy them to your computer’s clipboard (e.g., on Windows use the right mouse button).Click on “ You have XX highlighted passages…” (not shown) to see all highlights and notes for your Kindle book:.I am informed that I own a different edition of Spark!, so I need to click one more time to get to my book entry:.Find the book by either searching or clicking on “ Your Books,” and click on the book title: Go to this website and log in with your Amazon account.Next, we are going to retrieve the highlights and notes for the bookĪmazon saves all your Kindle annotations (i.e., highlights and notes) in your Kindle account. This will save the book’s bibliographic entry as an item in your Zotero library. Open your Zotero library, open the collection (here Brain Improvement) in which you want to save the book’s information and Kindle annotations, and click the book symbol:.Let’s get started by saving the book’s bibliographic information to Zotero Ratey and Eric Hagerman to illustrate the procedure. In the following, I use Spark!: How exercise will improve the performance of your brain, by John J. For more info on Zotero, please check this post. The exported annotations will allow us to jump directly to the corresponding locations in the book. We are also going to look at saving Kindle annotations in Evernote and OneNote and linking these notes to a Zotero library. Let me put forward some suggestions on how you can save and manage a Kindle book’s annotations together with its bibliographic information in your Zotero library. Do you want to export and organize these highlights and notes, so that you can archive, review, search, and share them? Then this post is for you. Amazon’s Kindle allows you to highlight passages in books and take notes.