The Kindle Highlights plugin (available in community plugins) automatically syncs Kindle book highlights & notes through connecting with your Amazon account and the developer has also added a new feature for importing from myclippings.txt in the latest update. Working really well for me thus far 
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Not thrilled with this excerpt from the plugin authorās git site-
āā¦.If you choose to sync your highlights via Amazonās online Kindle Reader, it is important to note that by logging in to your Amazon account via Obsidian your Amazon session becomes available to any other plugin across your vaults until your session expires.ā
Would love to hear from talented Forum members or Obsidian Devs if/how this could be mitigated in the Apple sphere. Although, Iām not really suggesting the Devs become the Plugin Police (or am I, 
).
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I just installed and used this plug-in by linking to my uploaded My Clippings.txt file that I pulled off my kindle. It worked perfectly. No sync required with my amazon account.
FYI, after installing and enabling the plug-in, I was able to pull up the option to manually upload the My Clippings.txt by clicking the middle bottom of the screen where the status of my kindle sync was presented.
From there is was very clear what to do
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Fair call. I had to declare the behaviour so as a user you can make the best informed option for you.
Obsidian is an Electron app. In essence, it is running inside a sandboxed browser. Any web session that a plugin may create, is available for all plugins to use. It is currently not possible to limit a session for a particular pluginās usage.
That said, you have two easy options to work around this to ensure the privacy of your Amazon account:
- Logout from the pluginās settings after every use
- Donāt use the online Amazon sync. And instead upload the My Clippings.txt file on your Kindle device
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Great! Thanks for the reply. Will pursue #2!
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Hello, thanks for this tip it is working fantastic! One question though my location links are not clickable as yours look to beā¦any ideas there?
Is there any way to create individual .md files for each highlight, rather than for each book, and just have a tag or metadata for those .md files linking them to each book? Iād prefer individual notes per highlight rather than per book.
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Self promotion but I had a little program I wrote and just put it up into www.kindle2markdown.com. Itās easy and quick to use
Although this doesnāt help with the markdown part, you can actually send yourself a copy of your notes and highlights from a document by email. You just have to do it from within that document on your device.
Tap on the little ānotesā icon (looks a bit like the ānew noteā icon in Obsidian) and thereās a āshareā option. Tap that and you can āexport notebook.ā That lets you email it yourself as an attachment. It sends as HTML, though.
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Not if the kindle book was not purchased from Amazon. There is no Share option for non-Amazon books. No way to get those notes and highlights (collectively my annotations) out at all that Iāve found in several years of looking.
If you or anyone else has a way please share it!
I just sent myself one this week this way, from a book Iād sent via āSend to Kindle.ā
Those notes donāt show up in the regular notebook (at read.amazon.com), but I was able to send them from inside the book.
Is there any way to do āSend to Kindleā on a bunch of books at once, a bulk send? I have over 1100 Kindle books and roughly 75% of them were NOT bought from Amazon.
Also, do you know if existing annotations (highlights and notes) get saved when you send toKindle a book youv[e already annotated?
Iāve always just dragged the .MOBI files over to the iPad. Simple easy and fast and I can do a bunch at once.
As far as I know, for a book you sent to Kindle yourself, you canāt bulk send it; the best you can do is to save the notebook file from the device.
Likewise, I donāt think they carry over from one device to another. If youāre sending it back to the same device it might; I havenāt ever tried that so Iām not sure.
Itās not too big a deal to email yourself the file as you finish a bookā¦but when youāre playing catch-up for past reading ā yeah, that doesnāt sound like a very efficient process. 
Hi Iexane ,
Here is a new obsidian plugin that do just what you need !
https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2021/06/moving-kindle-highlights-directly-to-obsidian-notes/
Have fun !
Martial
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This is a great tool for those who
a) donāt own a physical Kindle device ā I have over 1000 Kindle books and have always used a reader (Windows, Web, Android, iOS) and
b) donāt want to fool with the limitations of clippings.txt solutions (even if I were to go buy a junker Kindle device).
With this solution, yes, i have to go in and export each set of highlights manually, per book, every time I change anything but ā¦ I have full controlā¦
Hi yall, if youāre interacting with your āMy Clippings.txtā file you might notice duplicate annotations in there. I built www.highlight.tools in order to automatically remove those duplicates, maybe someone might find it helpful!
I use the Calibre eBook Manager to move my Kindle highlights into Obsidian.
Itās free software and much better than managing books via Amazon imo
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With web viewer and the ability to open read.amazon.com inside of Obsidian, I no longer have a need to bring kindle highlights into Obsidian. The kindle is now just another inbox. If there is a highlight or attached note, it is a simple matter to copy from one tab to another.
About as frictionless as can be.
Interesting. How do you sync the highlights and comments in a book from Calibre to Onsidian?
