kindle2anki

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#+TITLE: kindle2anki

• Description This is a Python script to help add words from Kindle to Anki.

• Features

• It can directly add words to Anki decks (using [[https://github.com/FooSoft/anki-connect][anki-connect]] ) or creates a anki-ready tsv file.
• Asks for card back in the terminal (optional).
• Adds words from both the Vocabulary Builder and your Notes (=My Clippings.txt=). Vocabulary builder holds all the words you look up in the dictionary on Kindle. Clippings are your highlights.
• Last timestamp is written to =~/.kindle=. During next import only new lookups are exported. One can manipulate value written to =~/.kindle= to get only needed words from Kindle.
• Retrieve translations, images and sounds from LinguaLeo (from https://github.com/rampage644/kindle-to-anki)

• Usage This uses [[https://github.com/FooSoft/anki-connect][anki-connect]] , so make sure Anki is up and running.

• Import new words from vocabulary builder since last time, and asks for card back in the terminal. Words can be skipped (s) or you can quit at any words (q). =--clipboad= copies each word into clipboard so you can use it to look-up into any dictionary.

  #+BEGIN_SRC shell $ ./kindle2anki.py --vocab-db '/run/media/Kindle/system/Vocabulary/vocab.db' --deck words --clipboard

  [0%] Word: include Context: Your Kindle includes one or more dictionaries for each supported language. Enter card back:[q/s] #+END_SRC

• Import new words from clippings since last time Do not ask for card back (to edit later in Anki) when =--ano-ask= is provided

  #+BEGIN_SRC shell $ ./kindle2anki.py --clippings '/run/media/Kindle/documents/My Clippings.txt' --deck words --no-ask #+END_SRC

• I have not tested translation (code is from https://github.com/rampage644/kindle-to-anki)

• You can see my out-dated post [[https://dev.to/psamim/how-i-transfer-my-vocabs-from-my-kindle-paperwhite-to-anki-1f4d][How I transfer my vocabs from my Kindle Paperwhite to Anki]] . Arguments have changed since then.

• Install The scripts uses [[https://github.com/FooSoft/anki-connect][anki-connect]] . Make sure you have installed it.

Then install this script from [[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kindle2anki-git/][AUR]] or:

• Install Python 3
• Clone this repo
• Install requirements (=pip install -r requirements.txt=)

• Help #+BEGIN_SRC shell $ ./kindle2anki.py --help

usage: kindle2anki.py [-h] [--vocab-db VOCAB_DB] [--clippings CLIPPINGS] [--deck DECK] [--update-timestamp] [--no-ask] [--clipboard] [-o OUT] [-m MEDIA_PATH] [--email EMAIL] [--pwd PWD] [--max-length MAX_LENGTH] [--verbose]

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --vocab-db VOCAB_DB Path to Kindle vocab DB file (usually "/system/vocabulary/vocab.db" on Kindle). Provide this either this or --clippings --clippings CLIPPINGS Path to clippings (usually "/documents/My Clippings.txt" on Kindle) --deck DECK Anki deck name --update-timestamp Only update local timestamp to now and exit --no-ask Do not ask for card back in the command line --clipboard Copy each word to clipboard -o OUT, --out OUT CSV output filename to import into Anki, if not provided words are added to Anki using anki-connect -m MEDIA_PATH, --media-path MEDIA_PATH Where to store media files (sounds/images) from Lingualeo --email EMAIL LinguaLeo account email/login --pwd PWD LinguaLeo account password --max-length MAX_LENGTH Maximum length of words from clippings, to avoid importing big sentences --verbose Show debug messages #+END_SRC shell

• Automatic Sync One can use udev rules to run this script automatically on Kindle connect. See https://github.com/seletskiy/runki#kindle--udev

• Credits

• https://github.com/rampage644/kindle-to-anki
• https://github.com/sebpearce/firewood
• https://github.com/seletskiy/runki