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Drop in your My Clippings.txt and read every highlight and note, sorted by book. Search across all of them, export what you want.
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Plug your Kindle into a computer and open the documents folder. The file is called My Clippings.txt. Everything happens on your device — the file never leaves your browser.
My Clippings.txt is a log your Kindle writes as you read. It is not Amazon's synced record, and it is not always an accurate picture of your notes today.
The authoritative, up-to-date version of your notes lives in Amazon's notebook page and in the per-book files on the device. Neither can be read from a browser, which is why this tool uses the clippings file — it is the only source that works without handing your Amazon login to someone else's server.
So: treat what you see here as everything your Kindle wrote down, not as a clean final list.
Reading straight from your device log — deleted highlights and duplicate selections can show up here.
Make a card out of your numbers. Nothing is uploaded — it's drawn on your device.
Share it wherever you like. If someone asks, the tool is free and needs no signup.
Highlighting is recognition, not recall. A highlight you never return to is a sentence you agreed with once.
ClearRead takes these same highlights and brings them back on a schedule, asks you to explain them in your own words, and shows you which ones you've actually kept.
No. The parsing happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. There is no server involved and nothing is stored. Close the tab and it's gone.
Connect your Kindle to a computer with a USB cable. It appears as a drive. Open the documents folder and you'll find My Clippings.txt there. It holds every highlight and note you've ever made on that device.
Amazon doesn't offer an official way to export highlights. Tools that sync automatically do it by logging into your Amazon account on their own servers, which means handing over your credentials and paying a monthly fee to cover their hosting. This runs on your machine instead, so there's nothing to pay for and nothing to trust.
My Clippings.txt only exists on Kindle e-readers, not the phone app. If you only read on the app, you can copy your highlights from the Amazon notebook page and paste them in.
Because the clippings file is a log, not a live record. Your Kindle appends to it as you highlight, but removing a highlight later doesn't reliably remove the line. The same is true for books you've deleted — their highlights stay behind. Amazon's notebook page holds the corrected version, but there's no way to read it from a browser without logging into your account on someone else's server.
If you extend or shorten a highlight while reading, the Kindle usually writes a new entry and leaves the old one in place. You end up with two near-identical lines at almost the same location. Nothing is wrong with your file — that's just how it logs.
Because it's one piece of something bigger. ClearRead is a paid app that turns highlights and books into active reading with spaced review. This viewer is the part everyone needs, so it's open to everyone.