Peep this, I stumbled on it randomly last week and also was surprised that it still seems to be around and kicking. It’s basically a Rails for cold fusion lol.
“Superstition [is] cowardice in the face of the Divine,” wrote Theophrastus, who lived during the founding of the Library of Alexandria. We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where life is sparked by sunlight and lightning in the airs and waters of youthful planets; where the raw material for biological evolution is sometimes made by the explosion of a star halfway across the Milky Way; where a thing as beautiful as a galaxy is formed a hundred billion times—a Cosmos of quasars and quarks, snowflakes and fireflies, where there may be black holes and other universes and extraterrestrial civilizations whose radio messages are at this moment reaching the Earth. How pallid by comparison are the pretensions of superstition and pseudoscience; how important it is for us to pursue and understand science, that characteristically human endeavor.”
I looked into this in 2013. At that point there was a "My Clippings.txt" file stored on the kindle that was accessible as a USB storage volume when plugged in. This file stored each annotation in plain text, along with the document ID and the start and ending location of the annotation.
Trouble was, the location was in the Kindle's "Loc" format which is nontrivial (at least to me at the time) to connect to specific text in the document.
I'm sure someone's probably worked this out by now?
Sorry I failed to mention I'm aware of the "clippings.txt" setup, but I would like to be able to have it automated via the web.
Amazon doesn't expose a direct API for highlighting, and Readwise for example does a little "hack" where you use their browser extension to redirect to the Kindle highlights page and I think they just slurp up the authenticated API requests.
There are some books where if you exceed a certain number of highlights, they are not saved on the file anymore, and I’m pretty sure it also affects the web version too.
This is set as part of the DRM, so be careful that you are really saving the data you want. I went deep into a book highlighting things before I noticed this limitation.
Sorry I failed to mention I'm aware of the "clippings.txt" setup, but I would like to be able to have it automated via background API process on the web.
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