Easy Kindle Highlights Conversion
Convert your Kindle Highlights Into JSON and Markdown - In Seconds
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Kindle Highlights to Files that will work on your favourite devices, applications, development languages and editors.
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A Simple Way to Increase Portability of your highlights
Future proof and Device independent ensures your highlights can be repurposed into anything.
Save your favourite moments and extract notes for your book notes.
Easily export all your notes and highlights in formats you can move around.
Turn your notes and highlights into data for analysis or app building.
The simplest way to rediscover and share your hidden highlights.
A brief history of KinHi
How it all started?
In 2022 I bought my third Kindle device to try and find the perfect way to read. The idea of reading is great but I always found no time but kept buying books. Non-Fiction books seem to be my thing, but only recently discovered that the best way to remember what I was reading was to highlight and take notes.
The problem is that all these highlights and notes only existed on the device itself, yet there are times when I would like to reference the book, or remember some content. The Kindle is great but I thought wouldn't it be handy to get my notes off the Kindle and into my note taking apps.
So I looked around, and came across a number of different services. However the problem is they tied me into a monthly subscription and specific vendor. I thought about it some more and thought if I can build something that can convert the notes and highlights into portable files without vendor lock-in.
After a few prototypes, KinHi was developed. Originally a command line app but soon realised other people might be after something simple to convert all their highlights into portable files. I hope you enjoy the service. I don't charge for the service, but if you find it useful and want to support me then you can scan the QR code below.
The Founding Requirements
- Smart Grouped HighlightsAll Highlights and Notes are grouped by book, making it easy to copy into your notes.
- No Sign Up RequiredConvert and download your files without signing up.
- Designed to be simpleThe whole process of getting your Highlights from your Kindle to getting your converted files can be done in three steps (see below).
- Secure and PrivateThere is no personal information supplied and KinHi does not store any of your Highlights or Notes. Once downloaded, they are all gone.
- Fast ConversionRunning in the cloud with scaleable technology. KinHi aims to convert your file in seconds.
Here's how KinHi Works
Connect your Kindle to your computer, download and save the MyClippings.txt file.
Select the MyClippings.txt file to the uploader at the top this page.
Click to Download your converted files and use them as you please.
Power Up Your Kindle Highlights
The humble text file isn't the best format for modern applications.
Markdown is a common format for many modern notetaking apps such as Notion, Obsidian or Bear they can easily be copied and pasted in.
JSON data can be used to build a website or import the data into Python, R for analysis.
Discover hidden Highlights
Making highlights and notes is only useful if you make use of them later.
Recall your favourite highlights and bring back to life motivations and quotes.
Review notes you've taken and liberate them to rediscover why you felt your note was important.
Make the most of your Books
Enjoy note taking and marking highlights as your read knowing they can easily be copied into your second brain.
Curate ideas from multiple book and make new connections from all your Highlights.
Unlock the full potential of what you read and process it in apps you love.
Got more Questions?
Still have some questions? Hopefully they are answered below.
A good question. The txt file on the Kindle is designed to be parsed by the Kindle for the Kindle and nothing more. In comparison the use cases for Markdown and JSON files are different. Markdown is designed to make reading easier to read on the Internet, therefore getting the output in Markdown makes it easier to publish and can also be converted into HTML easily enough if required. It is also future proof, widely used and easy to edit. JSON is also plain text but serves a different purpose. It is one of the most common ways to represent and transmit structured data, therefore making it easy to build cool stuff.
KinHi is safe to use, we don't store any data and the choice is yours to download the data. Once you hit the Download link you will receive a zip file. Inside the ZIP file will be the converted files which can be unzipped on any computer. The file will remain available for as long as you have the browser tab open.
KinHi usually processes the file straight away and returns the converted files immediately. Various factors may affect the speed it takes to upload, convert and download the file include the size of the file, Internet connection and any server issues.
Not at this time. KinHi only supports the Kindle eReaders.
Every service provides its own advantages and disadvantages. KinHi is a light service simply to convert files. Some benefits of using KinHi are. No Registrations - You can convert your file without any signups. Free - The current service is free, we may offer an optimised version in the future, but the core version will always be free. Your data is your data - We don't store any of your data and only process the file to convert it. None of your Highlights or Notes are stored on our servers.
There are no restrictions to using KinHi. However, some books might have a limit on the percentage of text that can be exported from each book. In this case the highlight will be truncated. This only affects books bought from the Amazon store and not your personal documents.
Most Kindles store the highlights and notes in the My Clippings.txt file. As long as the My Clippings.txt file is available to download from the Kindle, then KinHi should be able to convert the file.