Martin Hähnel

How To Get Highlights Of Side-Loaded Books Off Of My Kobo And On To Readwise (And Ultimately Into Obsidian)

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Just wanted to quickly jot down how I managed to get the highlights of my side-loaded - still bought, just not through the Kobo store - books off the eReader and onto Readwise and from there into Obsidian.

Thing is, Kobo itself doesn't make it super easy to get these highlights through their online services. And therefore Readwise doesn't offer an easy syncing solution of highlights of side-loaded books on Kobo-based eReaders. But what works is syncing directly from the eReader directly.[1] For this some kind soul developed an app called October:

A desktop application that can send your Kobo highlights to Readwise in a couple of clicks.

I found the process fairly easy to set up. [Here are the docs.](https://october.utf9k.net/overview

I personally use the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin to then get my highlights into my notes system (which I consider the source of truth for that kind of stuff).

  1. That's not that different from Kindle, really. ↩︎