Import your Kindle and calibre notes

How to bring highlights and notes from a Kindle's My Clippings.txt file or from calibre into the matching books of your LuceVoce library.

Windows

Yes

Mac

Yes

iPad

Yes

iPhone

Yes

LuceVoce can read the highlights and notes you made on a Kindle, or in calibre's book viewer, and place each one on the same words in your copy of the book.

Import notes from a Kindle

1. Connect your Kindle to your computer and copy the file My Clippings.txt from its documents folder. On an iPhone or iPad, save the file to Files first.
2. Make sure the books are in your LuceVoce library.
3. Open Settings, choose Study, and under Import notes choose Kindle notes (My Clippings.txt). On a computer you can also use the arrow next to Add in the library (More ways to add).
4. Pick the file.

LuceVoce finds each book by its title and places every highlight by its text. Notes you typed on the Kindle are attached to the highlight they belong to.

Import notes from calibre

calibre's annotation file doesn't say which book it belongs to, so open that book first.

1. In calibre, export the book's highlights in calibre's own annotation format, a JSON file.
2. In LuceVoce, open the same book.
3. Open Settings, choose Study, and under Import notes choose calibre annotations (JSON).
4. Pick the file.

Read the result

When the import ends, a message tells you how many notes were placed and in how many books. It also lists:

• books from the file that are not in your library, by title. Add those books, then import the same file again.
• notes that could not be placed in the text, for example because your copy of the book is a different edition.
• notes that were already there.

Good to know

• Importing the same file twice adds nothing new, so you can import an updated My Clippings.txt whenever you like.
• When you extended a highlight on the Kindle, the Kindle keeps both versions. LuceVoce keeps only the longer one.
• Kindles in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch are understood.
• With sync on, imported notes reach your other devices too.

Last updated 13 November 2026