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A comment on Ask HN: For memorising books, do you prefer a notepad or annotating the margins?.

Re:Ask HN: For memorising books, do you prefer a notepad or ... by misiti3780 on Sunday January 12, 2020 @12:27PM (#22027533)
I read everything on a kindle, use kindle highlights, and then when I am done with the book (or even better, while im reading it) dump the highlights into Anki and create different cards from them -- this method has worked well for me for the past 3 years. I plan on doing it for the rest of my life.
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Re:Ask HN: For memorising books, do you prefer a notepad or ... by lberk on Sunday January 12, 2020 @02:53PM (#22028761)
Could I ask how you dump the highlights to an external service?
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Re:Ask HN: For memorising books, do you prefer a notepad or ... by deepaksurti on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:23AM (#22044116)
I guess he is using a technique similar to those posted in this SO post. [1]

Google tells me there are some third party libs/api's to do this, but nothing official, ISFICT.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5374045/how-to-access-ki...

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