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Claude Code skill recovers Kindle highlights blocked by Amazon's export limits
Key points
- New Claude Code skill recovers Kindle highlights blocked by Amazon's export limits.
- Skill extracts all highlights into a single Markdown file.
- Uses Mac Kindle app data and Cloud Reader to recover truncated or hidden highlights.
- Proven to recover hundreds of previously blocked highlights from real books.
New Claude Skill for Kindle Highlights
A new Claude Code skill has been released as part of the l3a0 plugin, designed to address Amazon's export limits on Kindle highlights. This skill allows users to extract all their highlights from their Amazon account, including those that Amazon's system truncates or hides entirely due to unspecified export limits.
Overcoming Export Limitations
Amazon's Kindle notebook page often limits the export of highlights, resulting in incomplete or missing text. The new skill bypasses these limitations by combining information from the Mac Kindle app's synced annotation positions and the Cloud Reader's rendered pages. This method enables the recovery of highlights that would otherwise be inaccessible to the user.
Recovery Process and Scope
The skill extracts every highlight for a book into a combined, verbatim, location-cited Markdown file. Testing on four books demonstrated the recovery of 815 export-blocked highlights (454 truncated, 361 hidden) out of 2,432 total highlights. The tool is macOS-only, relying on AppleScript for browser control, Apple's Vision framework for OCR, and data files from the Mac Kindle app. It requires Claude Desktop with the "Control Chrome" extension.
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A new Claude Code skill, part of the l3a0 plugin, extracts all Kindle highlights from a user's Amazon account, including those truncated or hidden by Amazon's export limits. This tool recovers previously inaccessible highlights by combining data from the Mac Kindle app and Cloud Reader, providing a complete Markdown file of notes.