Quick Answer
Kindle saves every highlight, note, and bookmark to a file called My Clippings.txt on the device. This free converter parses that file in your browser — grouping clippings by book, removing duplicates, and sorting by location — then exports Markdown (per book, or combined with a table of contents), a spreadsheet-ready CSV, or an Anki-importable flashcard CSV. Nothing is uploaded and no account is required: copy the file over USB and drop it in.
How It Works
Copy My Clippings.txt off the Kindle: connect it by USB and take the file from the documents folder
Drop the file into the converter (or paste its contents); press Load sample first to see a demo with two books
Review the parsed stats — books, highlights, notes, and words — and any duplicate-removal or skipped-entry notices
Filter to one book or search across every highlight to check the entries you care about
Export: Markdown per book, combined Markdown with a table of contents, CSV, or an Anki-importable CSV
Key Facts
- Parses the documented My Clippings.txt format: Highlight, Note, and Bookmark entries with Kindle locations or print page numbers
- Entries are grouped by book with per-book counts; filter to one book or search across every highlight
- Duplicate highlights within a book are matched on normalized text (case and whitespace ignored) and dropped, keeping the first
- Clippings sort by location within each book; entries without a location sort last, then by date
- Markdown export per book and combined with a linked table of contents
- CSV export with book, author, type, location, ISO date, and text, correctly quoted and escaped
- Anki-importable CSV: highlight on the front, book and location on the back, book::Title tags
- Runs entirely in your browser — the file is never uploaded, and it is free with no account
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do I find My Clippings.txt on my Kindle?
Connect the Kindle to your computer with USB and open the device’s documents folder — My Clippings.txt sits next to your books and is rewritten each time you make a highlight, note, or bookmark on the device. Copy it off (do not edit the copy on the Kindle), then drop it into this tool. Highlights made in the Kindle phone or browser apps do not write to this file.
How does the parser handle messy or unusual clippings files?
Entries are split on the ========== separator lines; the title line keeps the last parenthetical as the author (so titles that themselves end in parentheses still work, and books without an author parse too); the metadata line accepts Location ranges, single locations, Page numbers, and entries with no location at all. UTF-8 BOM and Windows (CRLF) line endings are handled, and malformed entries — a missing metadata line or an unknown type — are skipped into a counter instead of breaking the parse.
Is this Kindle clippings converter free?
Yes — free with no account, limits, or watermarks. Readwise, the best-known paid option, is a subscription service (roughly $10 a month) that adds cloud sync and a reader; if you just want your clippings converted to Markdown, CSV, or Anki cards, this tool does that job for nothing, on your device.
Is my data private?
Yes. The file is read, parsed, and converted entirely in this browser with client-side JavaScript — nothing is uploaded, logged, or shared. The page keeps working offline after it loads, and closing the tab clears everything.
What export formats do I get?
Four: a Markdown file per book (highlights as quotes with a “— Loc 123-145” attribution line, notes marked), one combined Markdown with a linked table of contents, a general CSV with book, author, type, location, ISO date, and text columns, and an Anki-importable CSV where the highlight is the front, the book and location form the back, and the tags column uses book::Title.
Why do some entries show Page numbers and others Location numbers?
Kindle records a “Location” — a position in the file that stays the same regardless of font size — for most books, and a print-edition “Page” number for books where the publisher mapped one. The parser accepts both, sorts by the number within each book, and lists entries with no position at the end, ordered by date.