Comment 2 for bug 1155098

Hi,

Thank you for the swift response, and I completely understand that you have
to prioritize your time.

Shane.

p.s. Calibre is just awesome. Thank you for developing it.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Kovid Goyal <email address hidden>wrote:

> Fetching annotations is not supported on newer Kindles. This isn't
> somethign I am interested in personally, patches are welcome.
>
> status wontfix
>
> ** Changed in: calibre
> Status: New => Won't Fix
>
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> Title:
> Bug report: "Fetch Annotations" does not work on Kindle Paperwhite
>
> Status in calibre: e-book management:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> OS: Windows 7 x64.
> Device: Kindle Paperwhite.
>
> If I annotate a file by highlighting portions of the file, or adding a
> note, it would be great to be able to view the file, complete with
> annotations, on my PC.
>
> However, the "Fetch annotations (experimental)" feature doesn't seem
> to work with my Kindle.
>
> Here is how to reproduce the problem:
>
> 1. Highlight some text in a book on the Kindle Paperwhite. Lets call
> this "MyBook".
> 2. Connect Kindle Paperwhite to PC via USB port.
> 3. In Calibre, click "Device", right click "MyBook", then "Add Books To
> Library".
> 4. In Calibre, click "Library", right click "MyBook", then "Fetch
> Annotations (experimental)".
> 5. View "MyBook", the annotations do not appear.
>
> Ideally, this process would be 100% transparent to the end user. If
> the user annotates a book on their Kindle, then plugs their Kindle
> into the PC, Calibre would pop up "New highlights and annotations in
> books on Kindle detected. Do you wish to copy these annotations into
> your library?".
>
> At this point, it would copy the files in, and the viewer would
> display the book, exactly as it would display on the Kindle (with
> highlights and annotations).
>
> Regards,
> Shane
>
> p.s. Calibre is amazing. You are doing the world an incredible service
> by writing this program, and by making ebooks easier to work with, you
> are helping to increase literacy, which will make the world a far
> better place.
>
> p.p.s. It would be great if there was some way to actually copy the
> annotations the original source file, especially for .pdf files.
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