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Kindle Clippings Parser

An interface for parsing out and exploring your Kindle highlights, developed using NextJS.

About

This tool allows you to explore your Kindle highlights by copying and pasting in your Kindle's My Clippings.txt file.

Usage

Go to https://parse-kindle-clippings.vercel.app/ (or run your own local copy) and paste in your My Clippings.txt file from your Kindle. Click on a book below to see its highlights.

Setup

For development

npm install
npm run dev

For production

npm install
npx next build
npm start

Sample Clippings

Copy and paste the following into the webapp to see it in action, if you don't have your own clippings handy.

1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
- Your Highlight on page 172 | Location 2629-2632 | Added on Friday, May 11, 2018 11:53:19 PM

“Takashima was fun,” Fuka-Eri said. The Professor smiled. “I’m sure Takashima is fun for little children. But when you grow up and reach a certain age and develop an ego, life in Takashima for most young people comes close to a living hell. The leaders use their power to crush people’s natural desire to think for themselves. It’s foot-binding for the brain.”
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Men Without Women: Stories (Haruki Murakami)
- Your Highlight on page 4 | Location 47-51 | Added on Sunday, May 13, 2018 1:49:33 AM

Certainly there were good and bad male drivers too. Yet in most cases their driving didn’t create the same charged atmosphere. It wasn’t that they were especially laid back. In reality, they were probably tense too. Nevertheless, they seemed to be able to separate their tension and who they were in a natural—likely unconscious—way. They could converse and act normally even while focused on the road. As in, that belongs there and this belongs here. Kafuku had no idea where this difference between men and women drivers came from.
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Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
- Your Highlight on page 37 | Location 557-560 | Added on Friday, May 25, 2018 5:46:19 AM

All Hail the Dominant Primordial Beast! And Captain Ahab Too! Alexander Supertramp May 1992 GRAFFITO FOUND INSIDE THE ABANDONED BUS ON THE STAMPEDE TRAIL
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