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Import Kindle Highlights ​

Web Highlights brings the highlights and notes you made on your Kindle into your library, grouped one book at a time. Each imported book becomes its own set of highlights — and a flashcard deck you can learn with spaced repetition so the passages you marked actually stick.

There are two ways to get your Kindle highlights in. Use whichever matches where your books live:

MethodBest forCovers
My Clippings.txt uploadKindle e-readersPurchased books and sideloaded / personal documents
Browser extension on read.amazon.com/notebookBooks bought on AmazonAmazon-purchased books (subject to publisher export caps)

From a Kindle e-reader — My Clippings.txt ​

Every Kindle e-reader keeps a plain-text file of everything you highlighted, noted, and bookmarked, called My Clippings.txt. You upload that file and pick which books to import.

  1. Plug your Kindle into your computer with a USB cable.
  2. Open the Kindle drive and go to the documents folder.
  3. Find My Clippings.txt and upload it to the Kindle Flashcards tool.
  4. Web Highlights lists every book it found with its highlight and note counts. Select the books you want.
  5. Each selected book is imported as its own collection of highlights and notes.

Where is My Clippings.txt?

It lives only on the e-reader itself, not in the Kindle app. Connect the device by USB, open the Kindle drive, and look inside the documents folder.

The clippings file is the most complete source of your highlights: it includes your own sideloaded and personal documents, and it is not limited by the publisher export caps that hide highlights on the Amazon notebook page (see below).

From Amazon — the free browser extension ​

For books you bought on Amazon, the free Web Highlights extension adds a one-click import to your online Kindle notebook.

  1. Install the free Web Highlights browser extension.
  2. Open read.amazon.com/notebook and pick a book.
  3. Click Import Highlights & Notes to Web Highlights.

The highlights and notes for that book are imported together, and the highlight color you chose on your Kindle carries over. Repeat for each book you want.

Publisher export caps

Amazon lets publishers cap how much of a book can be exported, so the notebook page can hide a large share of your highlights. If a book comes in short, import it from the e-reader's My Clippings.txt instead — that file is not affected by the cap.

Each book becomes a flashcard deck ​

Whichever method you use, an imported book lands in your library as its own set of highlights. From there you can:

  • Read and search your highlights and notes any time, grouped by book.
  • Tag and organize them alongside everything else you highlight on the web and in PDFs.
  • Study them — start a spaced-repetition learning session scoped to a book, and review its highlights at the intervals the SuperMemo algorithm schedules for you. Turn any highlight into a question-and-answer flashcard for active recall.

Highlights and notes stay together

A note you wrote alongside a Kindle highlight is imported with it, kept on the same highlight — the same way notes work everywhere else in Web Highlights.

Your data stays on your device ​

The My Clippings.txt upload is parsed entirely in your browser. The file is never uploaded to a server and never leaves your device — only the highlights you choose to import are saved to your library.

Try it free — no account needed ​

You don't need to install anything or sign up to import from a clippings file. Two free tools cover both intents:

Create a free account when you want your imported books and learning progress to sync across devices.