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I made a tool to export annotations (highlights and notes) from my Kobo Libra Colour to a .txt file since it is a feature I’ve been wanting.
I eventually want to export annotations in MLA 9th edition, ebook style but, I still need to do the proper SQL query and formatting. For now it outputs to the .txt file as seen below.

I really need to complete my Operating Systems assignment (making a small Shell program) but, I thought I could reuse some of the ideas in my last file assignment to export annotations from my KLC. It’s really a work in progress but, it does work!

export_MLA.c file here:
https://github.com/MarinaHampton/kobo

Example output:
Last night I started reading “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age” by Sven Birkerts. Here are some exported highlights:

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“The heralds of the new—the so-called digerati—were proselytizing zealously for a new world order, while the skeptics chewed nervously at their cuticles and feared the demise of all they held dear.
” (Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age).

[Highlighted on: 22 Feb. 2025]

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“But the belief in the gathered weight of literary expression, what we used to consider our cultural ballast, is fading and is likely to fade further.
” (Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age).
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[Highlighted on: 22 Feb. 2025]