Re:Show HN: Readsmart, organize and review your notes and hi...
by dfernandez7 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:02AM
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Hey! That used to happen to me. Since I know now how I'm gonna use them, I highlight accordingly.
In any case, as you mention, Amazon doesn't provide what's necessary to add context (copyrights). However, we can create a link (for books purchased on Amazon) to the location/page and open Kindle App to show you the highlight "in context".
I personally love taking highlight to use them as quick references and to synthesise content for learning, so a good execution of this concept is really valuable for me.
From the screenshots I provided we can see highlights really lack context haha. I need to double check I highlighted the content properly or if it's somehow truncated.
I wonder if it's possible to optionally get a bit of extra context around the highlights, probably not as I doubt Amazon provides it in their "API".
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5pj9qvwnonmyl47/Screenshot%202019-...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o6y2m3hukn2ey3h/Screenshot%202019-...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7z639z21kiurhqr/Screenshot%202019-...
Edit: I'm definitely not highlighting properly, but now I know I need to add all the required context to my highlights.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4nset4jz6z80cu/Screenshot%202019-...