Importing “My Clippings”
Connect your kindle to your PC or Mac, using the USB cable.
Look in Kindle/Documents for the file “My Clippings.txt” as shown here.
Copy this file to your computer — somewhere that you know you’ll find it later.
Open this file:
Copy all the text in the file (in notepad, use Control-A and then Control-C).
Open a new document in Microsoft word, and paste the copied text. (Control-V) 
Select the Edit Menu/Replace
Replace “| ” with “^p” (no quotes)
Replace All.
Repeat the above: Edit Menu/Replace. Replace “Loc.” with “^pLoc“.
Select all the text. (Control-A)
Go to the Table Menu/Convert Text to Table,
When that window opens, choose 7 columns, separate text at paragraph mark
Go to your Edit Menu/Replace again, and replace “added on “ with nothing — clear that second entry.
Select the entire column with ========== in it,
right click, and choose “delete column.” 
Repeat delete column for the blank column, if you like.
Go to your Table menu again, and select Table menu/Sort: 
When the window comes up, sort FIRST by column 1 & SECOND column 3
Adjust your column width as desired — and you should have a complete table, sorted by manuscript and location within the manuscript!
(In the coming weeks, i’ll write a macro for MS Word 2003 — feel free to email me if you want a copy.)
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August 3, 2008 at 6:15 am
Good job tackling a useful task. When you get the Word 2003 macro done I’d appreciate a copy. Thanks in advance.
John
John Leathers
August 14, 2008 at 7:16 am
I must be doing something wrong or missing a vital step. When I get to the part of where you delete the column with =============== in it, there is more than one column and further more the ========== appears with other text in text in some columns…
Any ideas?
Has your word macro come out yet?
best regards,
D
David Magellan Horth
August 18, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I’ve had the same problem — it happens when you’ve got a carriage return (^p) inside the comment itself.
i usually page down the whole table as soon as i create it, note if and where it happened, hit Undo (Ctrl-Z), delete that carriage return, and then remake the table.
Sorry — I can’t seem to make the macro work right yet!
I really wish they’d come up with a better way of doing this…
Shana
August 22, 2008 at 10:30 am
I developed a work-around using an old scripting routine I used 15 years ago, substituting &&& for ^p, and then re-inserting as required.
I also changed the bit with the | to search for “| Added” since the washington post clippings included the “|” character.
I am including the VBA macro code here for any that are interested.
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Sub my_Clippings()
‘
‘ my_Clippings Macro
‘
‘
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = “^p^p”
.Replacement.Text = “”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Application.WindowState = wdWindowStateMinimize
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = “^p^p”
.Replacement.Text = “”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Application.WindowState = wdWindowStateNormal
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = “^p^p”
.Replacement.Text = “&&&”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = “^p===”
.Replacement.Text = “&&&===”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = “^p-”
.Replacement.Text = “&&&-”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = “===^p”
.Replacement.Text = “===&&&”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = “^p”
.Replacement.Text = ” ”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = “Loc.”
.Replacement.Text = ” &&&Loc.”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = “| Added ”
.Replacement.Text = ” &&& Added ”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = “&&&”
.Replacement.Text = “^p”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Selection.WholeStory
WordBasic.TextToTable ConvertFrom:=0, NumColumns:=6, NumRows:=475, _
InitialColWidth:=wdAutoPosition, Format:=0, Apply:=1184, AutoFit:=0, _
SetDefault:=0, Word8:=0, Style:=”Table Grid”
Application.WindowState = wdWindowStateMinimize
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = “&&&”
.Replacement.Text = “^p”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindAsk
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Application.WindowState = wdWindowStateNormal
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = “Added on”
.Replacement.Text = “”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindAsk
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
Steve
November 30, 2008 at 4:47 pm
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Importing Kindle myclippings.txt into a useful Table
November 30, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Greetings. I just wanted you to know, I created the macro, and have a couple little tricks that cleared up the problems mentioned above (and a few others, as well.)
Feel free to come and grab the VBA code. I would love it though if you would leave a comment and tell me what you think.
(I will be cleaning up the code, once the semester is over. Right now it is simply “recorder” code, but I can clean it up a bit.)
Steve
Steve
December 6, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Thanks for this, Steve. I’d be quite grateful if you’d help put together a description of how to use this VBA code – i’m not that familiar with it.
Shana
December 19, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Thank you so much for this. I took some notes which spaned a page, I now know to close my highlight before the page ends and start on new one on the next page.
Thanks again.
Suzanne
April 11, 2009 at 11:24 pm
I am working with a team to create a notes tool that will do the sort of parsing mentioned in this post, provide robust searching capability and support save, delete and import of new notes. If interested, mail me.
-Scott
Scott
June 8, 2009 at 11:42 am