mollyiv/kindleclippingsparser

KindleClippingsParser is a simple tool that takes the messy "My Clippings.txt" file your Kindle generates and turns it into clean, organized text files, one per book, named with the title and author. When you highlight passages on a Kindle, every highlight gets dumped into a single text file on the device. That file is hard to read and mixes all your books together. This script reads that file, figures out which highlights belong to which book, and writes each book's highlights into its own separate text file. The output is just your highlights, separated by blank lines, no extra metadata or formatting clutter. This is useful for anyone who reads on a Kindle and wants to actually do something with their highlights. Maybe you're researching a topic across several books and want your notes organized by source. Maybe you want to copy your favorite passages into a notes app or a blog post. Instead of manually scrolling through one giant file and copy-pasting sections, you get one tidy file per book ready to use. The tool is straightforward and does one thing. It's a Python script you run from the command line, pointing it at your clippings file. The README notes that configurable output directories are on the to-do list, so for now the output location isn't something you can customize. The project is open source under the MIT license, and the author invites suggestions for improvements.