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Saloni
@scientificdiscovery.dev

Something I learnt recently: Amazon stores all the highlights you make in Kindle here read.amazon.com/notebook which you can copy into an LLM to turn into structured notes. That way I can spend more time doing something I like (reading) and less time on something I don’t (making notes)

Zorro guardapavos
@drxaverius.bsky.social

they are also stored locally noncloud in a retrievable fashion by LLM if they are highlights you make in the kindle app of an Android device for a file stored locally. they try to gaslight you about it but you can always retrieve your highlights somehow

Saloni
@scientificdiscovery.dev

Yeah, but exporting it from the local storage means the highlights are truncated even more

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Saloni
@scientificdiscovery.dev

On the website they truncate each highlight up to a certain number of words, but on local storage it truncates to 10% of the book -- so your highlights from later chapters get killed

Zorro guardapavos
@drxaverius.bsky.social

? can't say I've missed even a single word with my (I admit, claude coded) method, and kept the different colors for different sorts of highlights. the 10% limit sounds like some nanny corporate shit but I admit I haven't tested it because I don't highlight that much text

Zorro guardapavos
@drxaverius.bsky.social

yeah just checked Unsong which is bought and the search of the assassin which is a file have highlights to the very end(>99%)of their huge text which is like 800-1000pages irl and there is no problem and the 10% limit doesn't exist if you have it as a file instead of the nanny corporate Amazon stuff