book-highlights

Styled exports of books I read on Kindle https://beatobongco.com/book-highlights/

Setup

This is a temporary setup. I plan to generalize this (perhaps on a separate repo) so others can use it. For now, however, these instructions will suffice.

0. Clone this repo
1. Remove contents of raw_notes and book folders
2. pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Dump your Kindle notes in the raw_notes folder. See file format
4. Run python generate_pages.py
5. Push
6. Make your repo available as a github page and you're done!

File format

The filename becomes the HTML filename and thus the URL.

e.g. a-mind-at-play -> (run script) -> a-mind-at-play.html -> on github pages this can be accessed as <your URL>/a-mind-at-play

The following format is subject to change, but for now files are parsed by line number.

Line 1: Title
Line 2: Summary (appears after title)
Line 3: Short summary (appears as meta description and opengraph description)
Line 4+: The actual output of your Kindle Reader export

Index

For now, you'll have to manually design and generate your index page. However, in future iterations this will be autogenerated by script also.

Theming

Just change up book.css and you're good to go!

Integration with search

You can add the url argument ?highlight=[YOUR QUERY] to highlight the first instance of that query and scroll to it.

Live example: https://beatobongco.com/book-highlights/book/a-mind-at-play?highlight=genius