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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.
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 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.