If you'd like to read your Kindle books on one specific computer even when you don't have an active internet connection, you can download the Kindle desktop app. Click the Download for PC & Mac button below the cover image to download the installer, double-click the downloaded file, and then follow the on-screen instructions to install. Readwise (@readwiseio) is my favorite new service this year.Save highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, and now tweets. Emails you a set of your highlights every day. Good spaced repetition makes it one of the best long-term personal learning tools I’ve come across. Mac: You can access your Kindle highlights from your Kindle itself, the apps, or the web app, but none of those are particularly handy, especially if you use your Kindle for research.
Many beta readers and editors like to proofread on a Kindle or in a Kindle app. This process involves highlighting passages and taking notes on your Kindle. When you’ve finished your proofread, you’ll need a way to get those notes to the author. But how?
Below are three options for retrieving your notes and highlights so you can share them with the author.
An Important Distinction
Amazon handles notes and highlights for purchased books differently than those for unpublished books, or personal documents. Notes and highlights for purchased books are stored in your Amazon account. Notes and highlights for unpublished books and documents are stored in the My Clippings file on your Kindle device. Below are the steps you need to follow to retrieve your notes and highlights for each kind of book.
For Purchased Books
Go to your Amazon account to retrieve your notes and highlights. Sign in with your account username and password and click on Your Highlights. All the books you’ve made notes on are stored here.
If you don’t see the notes in your Amazon account, check your Kindle device. You’ll need to turn on the Annotations Backup feature that allows you to back up notes and highlights to your Amazon account.
a) Copy the notes and highlights you want to share, and paste them into a .txt file or a .docx file. Email this file to the author.
or…
b) If you use Evernote, and have the Evernote Clipper installed on your browser, you can it to send notes and highlights to Evernote.
From Evernote, you can share the notes and highlights with the author by clicking on the Share icon.
The notes and highlights will then show up in the author’s Evernote account.
I learned this trick from Audri and Jim Lanford’s article at Paperitis. If you’re an Evernote user you’ll appreciate the elegance of this approach.
For Personal Books and Documents
Your highlights and notes from personal documents are not stored in your Amazon account. They are stored in the Clippings file on your Kindle. Here’s how you access those notes so you can share them with the author.
Plug your Kindle device into your computer.
Find your Kindle device on your computer’s hard drive. Click on it.
Click on the Documents folder (it might be spelled documents).
Click on the My Clippings.txt file. The notes you’ve made for unpublished books and personal documents are stored in this file, so you’ll need to search for the title of the book you’re looking for (CTRL + F).
Copy and paste your notes into a .docx file or a .txt file and email them to the author:
If you’d like a place to store these notes, you can copy them into Evernote and then share that note with the author as described above.
Clippings.io Method
If you don’t mind shelling out $2 per month, try the Clippings.io plug-in for Chrome. It’ll push your clippings to a Clippings.io account (free to set up) and you can manage your clippings from a central location.
You now have three ways to retrieve and share Kindle notes and highlights!
A special thanks to Len Edgerly at Kindle Chronicles for telling me about the My Clippings file and the Clippings.io plug-in.
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What is Kindle popular highlights? Kindle popular highlights is the most highlighted passages that readers have added to their Kindle books. When you see the Kindle popular highlights, you will see the numbers of the highlighters, and the highlighted texts are with a dashed line under them. As a coin has two sides, someone like this feature but others hate it because it tends to be disctracted. Any.do app mac. Here I will show you how to turn off Kindle popular highlights no matter what devices you are using. I have listed all the Kindle devices and apps you may be using and write down the step-to-step instructions so you can pick up the right one. Best email for mac users.
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Turn off Kindle Popular highlights on Kindle e-ink device
Touchable Kindle devices, like Kindle paperwhite, kindle voage, Kindle Oasis and so on
1. Go to the Home screen, and tap the three dots at the top right corner and then tap 'settings'.
2. Tap 'Reading Options'.
3. Tap 'Highlights & About This Book'.
4. Switch 'Popular Highlights' to 'Off'.
Non-Touchable Kindle devices, like Kindle keyboard
1. Mac offline note app. Go to the home screen of the Kindle, and click for menu key and then click on 'Settings' option.
2. Turn to page 3 to find the 'Popular Highlights' and turn off Popular Highlights on the old non-touchable Kindle devices.
Turn off Kindle Popular highlights on Kindle Fire
1. Swip down from the top of the Kindle fire and tap 'Settings'-->>'Application'.
2. Scroll down to find the 'Reading settings' and Tap it.
3. Find the 'Popular Highlights' and turn off 'Popular highlights' toggle on Kindle fire.
Turn off Kindle Popular highlights on Kindle for PC
1. Run Kindle for PC, click 'Tools' at the top menu bar and then select 'Options' at the drop-down list.
2. Then click on 'Annotations' and uncheck the box under 'Popular Highlights' as below picture to disable the Kindle popular highlights on Kindle for PC.
Turn off Kindle Popular highlights on Kindle for Mac
1. Run Kindle for Mac, and click on 'Kindle' at the top menu bar. Then select 'Preference' at the drop-down list.
2. A new window will pop up, click on 'Annotations' and then uncheck the box before 'Enable Popular Highlights' to turn off the popular highlights on Kindle for Mac.
Turn off Kindle Popular highlights on Kindle for Android
1. Open Kindle for Android, tap 'More' at the bottom right corner and tap 'Settings' option.
2. Scroll down to find 'Popular Highlights' options and uncheck the box to disable the Kindle popular highlights on Kindle app for Android.
Turn off Kindle Popular highlights on Kindle for iOS
If you are using Kindle app on your ipad or iPhone, please follow the below steps.
1. Run Kindle for iPAD or IPhone, go the bottom left corner to tap 'Setting' and then scroll down to select 'Other' option.
2. Tap to turn off the popular highlights on Kindle for iOS.
If you really think Kindle popular highlights are annoying and disturbing, just turn off it now following above instructions. Or if you have any other questions about Kindle popular highlights, you are welcome to leave them in the comments below and we will try our best to help you figure it out.
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