Avoid Kindle Highlight Export Limits with an iPad


Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today's video, I'll show you my workaround for getting around the export limits for Kindle highlights.
I did a video a little while ago showing how I export Kindle highlights to Evernote and Google Sheets.  So, I ran into an issue recently that I hadn't encountered before.  I'm in a graduate program and am renting my textbooks for the semester in digital format.  As I do my reading for the semester, I've been highlighting passages and then exporting them into a spreadsheet as a means of taking notes on the reading.  The way I usually do this is by accessing the Kindle management website through my PC at this URL (https://read.amazon.com/notebook).  
The issue I was running into was that I had apparently exceeded the number of highlights or amount of text that the website lets you export, so I was getting this message.  I was having to go back into an earlier chapter and delete the highlights one at a time in order to free up space to allow me to export the highlights that occur later in the text.  It was a hassle since you can't bulk delete highlights.  I guess I hadn't had this issue before since I was not using textbooks, which are long and full of highlight-able passages.
My workaround isn't a cure all, but it meets my needs.  Instead of going to the Kindle management website, I used the Kindle app on my iPad to export the highlights.  The export limits seems to be a little larger on the app for whatever reason.  From the Kindle app, hit this button at the top to see all of your highlights.  Then hit the Share button.  Choose Email, pick a citation style if needed, and hit Export.  Before you do, you can see at the bottom of the screen that Kindle is calculating how much of the book you are able to export.  They definitely don't want you to export 100% of the book for copyright reasons.  They set the limit at 10%.  I'm up to 4% now, which gives me lots more room to highlight than the website highlight page allowed.  
Once you hit Export, and email it to yourself, you'll get this nice Notebook Export, which as it turns out, gives you even MORE info than the website does.  Here -- I'll show them side by side.  You can see that the website export only gives location number (which I find kind of useless).  The iPad export gives you the Page number instead AND provides the title of the section of the book the highlight was found in.  I like all of this additional info.  I keep all of these highlights in a Google Spreadsheet.  I'm doing a separate video on how I organize all of my highlights per class.  Let me know what you think!  Comments are always appreciated and thanks for watching!

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