Own your Kindle highlights one email at a time.
Convert your Kindle highlights and notes to Markdown, CSV, or JSON in seconds:
- 🔓 No vendor lock-in — Own your reading data forever. Export and keep your notes in an open format.
- 💻 No browser extensions — No need to install anything.
- 🔥 No signup required — You just need an email adress.
- ⏱️ No need to connect your Kindle to your computer — Forward from your mobile app.
Highlight Hop is an email bot to quickly extract your Kindle highlights. Simply forward your book annotations from the Kindle iOS or Android application to one of these email addresses to recieve your highlights and notes in the desired format:
- For Markdown: markdown@highlight-hop.dartus.fr
- For CSV: csv@highlight-hop.dartus.fr
- For JSON: json@highlight-hop.dartus.fr
| Step 1: Open the book, tap the center of the screen and then on the Menu icon | Step 2: Navigate to Annotations | Step 3: Tap on the Share icon |
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| Step 4: Tap on Export | Step 5: Enter one of the email addresses listed above and press Send. | |
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Highlight Hop uses a serverless architecture deployed on AWS with the following components:
- Amazon SES - Receives emails and sends responses
- Amazon S3 - Stores raw email attachments temporarily
- Amazon SQS - Queues email processing tasks
- AWS Lambda(Node.js) - Processes highlights and generates output files.
Detailed requirements for the project can be found in the product brief