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Highlight & note functionality, as calibre or readwise reader have it. Please add it

Open xBlady opened this issue 5 months ago • 12 comments

i need highlight & note functionality, as calibre or readwise reader have it. Please add it

xBlady avatar Jul 23 '25 12:07 xBlady

I've been searching for the perfect way to sync highlights, notes and reading status for years now. I haven't found the perfect solution so I've settled on a paid alternative, bookfusion. Koodo reader is a close second, but the android reading app is too sluggish on my boox ereader.

Lately the selfhosted community seems to be getting more active around digital book management and -reading (think Calibre web automated, booklore, KoInsights). I really hope this moves forward into a selfhosted all in one reading solution with both book management, reading and notes and annotations management.

So same as I post on the other GitHub project pages, I'll post my +1 on this feature request here too!!

iroQuai avatar Aug 03 '25 10:08 iroQuai

Yeah, BookFusion's highlight/note syncing is excellent. That's what I use too, but I'd love to have something like that built into Booklore!

serabi avatar Aug 05 '25 23:08 serabi

Great addition would be some kind of export function to enhance notes further in other tools like logseq.

2302Dave avatar Aug 06 '25 19:08 2302Dave

I imagine the difficulty is that different reader stores highlights differently. This project supports KOReader (which I use, thanks!) and Kobo as well. Which ones should it support? Cross compatibility must be hard to achieve.

ericukk avatar Sep 10 '25 21:09 ericukk

I imagine the difficulty is that different reader stores highlights differently. This project supports KOReader (which I use, thanks!) and Kobo as well. Which ones should it support? Cross compatibility must be hard to achieve.

To be honest, I could settle with the ability to highlight only in the webapp as long as the highlights and notes can be exported in a open manner.

KhaaL avatar Sep 16 '25 02:09 KhaaL

Please implement highlight functionality with the ability to sync and export option.

akshara-tg avatar Oct 10 '25 19:10 akshara-tg

have been trying to figure this out myself

Shonatan avatar Oct 21 '25 02:10 Shonatan

might worth to have a look at whatever https://unearthed.app is doing it’s open source

borisrorsvort avatar Oct 23 '25 08:10 borisrorsvort

@adityachandelgit koreader added the annotation sync https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13372 but files still need to be manually transferred

borisrorsvort avatar Oct 24 '25 09:10 borisrorsvort

I am patiently awaiting highlight and open export functionality. Really hope this gets added, myself and many users would benefit. 🙏

EldestHedge avatar Oct 25 '25 20:10 EldestHedge

Actually, this is the only dealbreaker why I’m not convinced to use BookLore. Having so many highlights and notes, I do not want to lose them.

Erik262 avatar Nov 16 '25 12:11 Erik262

Come here to vote for the most important missing feature in all open source ebook solutions i surveyed so far. hope booklore is the first one to implement this.

joellti avatar Nov 19 '25 13:11 joellti

+1

kophi avatar Dec 17 '25 08:12 kophi