Technology

8 Musings on Digital and Hard Copy Books

I love books and I don’t care who knows it.

“The books you read and the people you meet will determine where you are in five years.”

Charlie ‘Tremendous’ Jones.

Books are second only to relationships when it comes to the trajectory of our lives.

I set out with a goal of reading 52 books this year. In case you’re wondering, an 8.5 hour plane ride across the Atlantic last week helped me get back on track, and I’ve officially completed 28 books, putting me on pace to hit 52 for the year.

[Full disclosure: A couple books are pretty short, around 100 pages, so that’s lame, but I’ll work on getting my page count up, ok, you guys?]

So, I thought it was time for some musings on books.

old-books-in-library

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How to Save and Format iBooks and Kindle Highlights and Notes to Your Computer

I still prefer physical books to eBooks, but one thing I love about eBooks is having all of my notes and highlights already digitally documented.

Unfortunately, Amazon and Apple don’t make saving your notes in a clean format simple. Since I’m a fanatic when it comes to organization and digital hygiene, this is not acceptable (more on how to fix that later).

If you are just looking to get all of your notes and save them in a document, PDF or paper copy (because you hate trees and have filing cabinets from the 1980s) here’s the quick and dirty process.

Kindle and iBooks notes formatting

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