Kindle Tips

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).

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I would think the Kindle almost perfect if I could email my notes on a particular manuscript (and ONLY that manuscript) TO myself from the kindle.

I love being able to leave my Kindle at home and email manuscripts to it from work, and I wish I could return those notes to myself without bringing the machine into the office and exporting them.

All notes, bookmarks, and clipped pages are stored in a file on your kindle, found by plugging the USB cord of your kindle into your computer; browse to the Kindle/Documents/My Clippings.txt file.

It’s a pain to not know where those notes are within the text — it’d be good to have the first line on that page included in the clipping.

Better still would be to have the chapter heading and first line.

- Presently, all notes are cited only by location in the text
“Emma (Jane Austen) – Bookmark Loc. 11 | Added on Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 10:18 PM”

That “location” is not a hard and fast page number – i.e. you can’t estimate by the usual number of words displayed on the screen and page that many words forward in a document on your PC or a printed document. If you’ve changed the text size at all, it counts the page views from that point on as viewed on the new text size.

I want to be able to save my notes on one book (or manuscript) separately from the rest of ‘my clippings’. whether i can email them or export them via the usb cable — this is essential.
Presently, all notes, bookmarks, and clippings are mixed together in the text file called “My Clippings” by the date entered.

You can find this file (only?) when you plug your kindle into your computer and browse to the Kindle/Documents — the file is called “My Clippings.txt.”