Kindle Highlights Import

If you read on a Kindle, you probably have hundreds of highlights and notes stored in Amazon’s reading app. Bookworm can import them directly into the matching book — keeping chapter, page number, highlight color, and the original passage right alongside your own annotations.

Exporting from Kindle

1. Open the Kindle app (iOS, Android, or desktop) or sign in at read.amazon.com.
2. Open the book whose highlights you want to export.
3. Tap or click Notebook (the icon with the page and bookmark).
4. Tap the Export button (usually a share icon in the top right).
5. Choose HTML and save the file. The Kindle app exports several variants (None, APA, MLA, Chicago) — any of them works; Bookworm reads them all.

The resulting file looks like Book Title (Portuguese Edition) - Notebook.html. Bookworm strips the (... Edition) suffix when matching against your library.

Importing into Bookworm

Web

1. Open the book in your library.
2. Scroll to the Notes section.
3. Click Import from Kindle (top right of the notes section).
4. Choose the HTML file you exported.
5. Review the preview — Bookworm shows the detected book title, every highlight, every note, and flags entries that already exist.
6. Click Import to confirm.

Mobile

1. Open the book in the mobile app.
2. Switch to the Notes tab.
3. Tap the upload icon in the header.
4. Pick the HTML file from your phone’s storage.
5. Review the preview and tap Import.

What gets imported

• The full highlighted passage is stored alongside your own note (if any).
• Chapter title (the section heading from Kindle).
• Page number.
• Highlight color (yellow, blue, pink, orange, green, aqua/teal, red, purple).
• Notes attached to highlights are merged into a single entry — the passage plus your annotation, together.
• Standalone notes appear as regular notes without a highlighted quote.

The position number (internal Kindle reference) is intentionally ignored — page number is enough for navigation.

Book matching

When you click Import, Bookworm compares the book title in the file with the book you’re viewing.

• If the titles match closely, the import goes through silently.
• If the titles differ (different book, or significantly different name), Bookworm shows a warning and asks you to confirm with a checkbox before importing.

Suffixes like (Portuguese Edition), (English Edition), (Spanish Edition) are stripped automatically before comparison.

Tip

Always open the matching book in Bookworm before importing. The button on the notes section sends imports straight to that book — there’s no global “pick which book” step.

Duplicate handling

If you re-import the same file (or a different export of the same book), Bookworm silently skips entries that already exist. The preview shows you how many are duplicates before you confirm. Matching is based on highlighted text + page number — capitalization and trailing whitespace don’t matter.

Free vs Premium

Feature	Free	Premium
Import Kindle highlights	✓	✓
Unlimited imports per book	✓	✓
Duplicate detection	✓	✓
Color, chapter, page preserved	✓	✓

The Kindle import is available to everyone — no premium gate.

Note

The HTML files Kindle exports vary slightly across regions and languages. Bookworm parses the structure (CSS classes for color, headings for chapter), so the export works in Portuguese, English, Spanish and other languages without changes.

Troubleshooting

“Could not read the file” — make sure the file is the HTML export from Kindle’s Notebook view, not a clippings text file or a .epub. The file should start with <!DOCTYPE html> and contain <div class="bookTitle">.

Title mismatch warning — if the warning looks wrong (the title actually does match), check whether the book in your library has a slightly different title from the Kindle file. You can rename your book in Edit Book or just check the “Import anyway” box.

“Preview expired” — the parsed preview is cached on the server for 10 minutes. If you wait too long between preview and confirm, just upload the file again.