Import from KindleFile importPro

Overview

Every Kindle e-reader keeps your highlights in a file called My Clippings.txt, including books you didn't buy from Amazon. Upload it to Logfolio and each highlight becomes a quote, with its author and the book it came from.

Fills your Quotes (Pro).

What comes over

• Each highlight, as a quote
• The author, as Said by
• The book, as the quote's Source
• The date you highlighted it

Good to know

• Notes and bookmarks are left out; only highlights come over.
• The same highlight saved twice lands once.
• Highlights from any book on your Kindle come over, not just ones bought from Amazon.
• The file has to come from a Kindle set to English; other languages label clippings differently.

On your profile

How it looks on your page, with made-up entries.

• You have power over your mind, not outside events.Marcus Aurelius
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.Henry David Thoreau
• It is a truth universally acknowledged.Jane Austen

See a full sample page: Reading log

Setup

1. Connect your Kindle to a computer with its USB cable.
2. Open the Kindle drive, then the documents folder, and copy My Clippings.txt.
3. In Logfolio (Pro), open Settings, then Import, choose the file, and press Import.

More detail in the guide to moving your history.

Privacy

• Your Kindle file is read once to make your entries, then thrown away. Logfolio never signs in to Kindle.
• Reviews stay private; your public page shows titles, ratings, dates, and tags.

Plan

Part of Pro.

Questions