Highlight Converter

Converts exported kindle highlights to other formats.

Motivation

After reader finishes a Kindle book it is handy to place highlights from the book into some readable format for revisiting it later. The highlights utility is created to convert exported highlights to other formats more suitable for placing into note-taking software.

Usage

highlight [input] <output>

Examples

Read highlights from the bookcision json file and render to the output stream.

highlight input.json

Read highlights from the bookcision json file and render to the file.

example kasparov.json kasparov.md

Supported output formats

Markdown

The highlights are suitable for importing into the Obsidian or similar software that works with Markdown format.

Supported input formats

Bookcision JSON

A free bookcision service provides a way to export kindle highlights to the json file. Highlight support those files as an input.