Kindle Import

Kindle Import

Parse Kindle notebook exports (HTML/XHTML) and create slipbox entries for the user's own notes.

Input Format

Kindle exports are XHTML files with this structure:

<div class="bookTitle">Book Title Here</div>
<div class="authors">Author Name</div>
...
<div class="sectionHeading">Chapter/Section Name</div>
<div class="noteHeading">Highlight (yellow) - Section > Page X</div>
<div class="noteText">Highlighted text from book</div>
<div class="noteHeading">Note - Section > Page X</div>
<div class="noteText">User's own note</div>

• noteHeading starting with "Highlight" → book text → skip
• noteHeading starting with "Note" → user's own thoughts → import the following .noteText
• Section/page info in the heading (e.g., "Section > Page 28") → ignore

Metadata fields:

• Title: content of .bookTitle div
• Author: content of .authors div
• Source type: book

Workflow

1. Parse header → extract book title and author. Done when title and author are both captured.
2. Extract user notes → collect the .noteText following every noteHeading starting with "Note"; decode HTML entities in each noteText before passing to slipbot. Done when every Note heading in the file has its following noteText accounted for.
3. Precheck → show user: book title, author, note count, ask for confirmation. Done when user confirms (or aborts).
4. On confirmation → for each note, invoke slipbot:
   • Type: note (- prefix)
   • Source: ~ book, {title} by {author}
   • Let slipbot handle: filename, tags, links, graph update
5. Report → count of notes created. Done when the reported count matches the extracted count.

Example

Input noteText:

Applications should not allow unsigned JWTs to be considered valid.

Slipbot call:

- Applications should not allow unsigned JWTs to be considered valid. ~ book, The JWT Handbook by Sebastian E Peyrott

Edge Cases

• No user notes (only Highlights): Report "no notes to import"
• Multiple authors: Preserve as-is from the file
• Missing author: Use "Unknown" as author
• Special characters in title/content: Preserve as-is