Having trouble with the bookmarklet? Bookcision is maintained by Readwise - please drop us a note, or create a Github Issue, with a detailed bug report and we'll try to help out.
At first, it was a little unstable, and its basic function was to help you format a Kindle book. The program has improved over the last couple of years. If you are self-publishing Kindle ebooks on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), this is a must-have free app for you to use. The bookmarklet yields a single page of cleanly styled highlights, which can then be copied to one's clipboard and pasted into a local text repository (OneNote, Evernote, DevonThink, etc.)Ĭhrome users will additionally be offered the ability to download the highlights in plain text, JSON, or XML formats. Kindle Create helps you format your Kindle ebook. We wanted a way cleanly to download our highlights onto our local computers, so we created a bookmarklet that permits one to easily extract highlights from the book's page.īookcision is a Javascript bookmarklet, meaning it should run successfully in any modern browser on either the PC or Mac. want to send the files to under Send-to-Kindle E-Mail Settings and make a note. These are then visible at, but there is no reason to believe that Amazon will continue to provide this service forever, and our ability to work with text in that hosted browser-based environment is limited. TIP: If youre using a Kindle Fire tablet instead of a Kindle e-reader. When you highlight or note a Kindle-purchased book on any Kindle device app, those annotations are automatically synced with Amazon's cloud.
