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Transfer Notes from iBooks to Computer

Does anyone know of a way to transfer highlights and notes from an ibook-purchased book from ibooks to my computer? I am an academic, and I really need to be able to see the material I've highlighted and use it on my machine (for papers, research, etc.).

This seems to be the major problem for ereaders when it comes to academic use.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jun 26, 2010 7:33 AM

19 replies

May 8, 2012 2:24 PM in response to WanChainKein

sure can you clairfy your issue?

there are 2 fields in the app

books - drag the iBooks.plist into this

booksData - drage the iBooksData2.plist in this

then click run your books should show up on the left

(the titles of the book will be there - or the title will be numbers if it can't find it)

Highlights / Highligh Context / and Notes show up on the right

the context is the paragraph the highlight is found in.

you can show or hide each of these

May 10, 2012 1:12 AM in response to Nathan005

Actually right now my problems are a little more basic. I don't know what do you mean with the "rigth spot to put the files".

I couldn't even install it... never had heard of a .grit before.

May 10, 2012 6:31 AM in response to WanChainKein

ah, yeah github could be confusing.

git is verson managment software, the project is opensouce

you probably dounloaded the source code

should link here

https://github.com/lgoss007/BookmarkExtractor/downloads

click version 1.2 should just be an app, move it to your applications folder

Hope that helps

Nov 24, 2012 9:11 PM in response to Nathan005

This is now possible in the latest iBooks (I tested with iOS 6)

In the Notes section, tap the Share Icon, choose Edit, Select All, then email it.

Work amazing, even keeps the highlight color and context in tact.

Transfer Notes from iBooks to Computer