stephenfmann/kindle-clippings

Parse Kindle's "My Clippings.txt" into JSON

kindle-clippings's Issues

blank output on Mac

[Originally posted by @kshitij-official]

Hey Stephan! Thanks for the script, exactly what I was looking for.

Issue: Not sure why but the output.json file is turning out to be blank.(PFA)

Originally posted by @kshitij-official in #2 (comment)

Insert external quotes

It is desirable to collate quotes from sources other than the Kindle.

This script should combine quotes from the Kindle with a manually created quotes file. The manually created file should be in the same format.

Invoke with -c <filepath.json>

Feature: Substitution table for faulty authors/titles.

Kindle books sometimes have incorrect metadata. This script should be able to substitute incorrect titles and authors with the correct ones, by referring to a manually maintained JSON file.

For example, my copy of Seeing by José Saramago has the author "Batchie" and title "Jose_Saramago_Seeing__". I therefore need to create an external file which says that this entry should have its author substituted for "José Saramago" and title substituted for "Seeing". This could be done with a JSON file e.g.:

[ { "author_old":"Batchie", "title_old":"Jose_Saramago_Seeing__", "author_new": "José Saramago", "title_new":"Seeing" } ]

Both items must be matched for the substitution to take place. There may be other entries with the aberrant author "Batchie", and those should not be changed to José Saramago.

Timezone offset

Include timezone offset: source files "My Clippings.txt" does not include a timezone. We could default to the user's system time zone. This is configurable by changing the TZ environment variable.

Suggested as a consequence of pull request #3.