iBooks 1.2 - Notes export??

One of the features I have been wanting the most in iBooks was the ability to get the notes and highlights I have made in an e-pub back out to my Mac. On opening one such book in iBooks 1.2 I went to the table of contents and clicked on the Bookmarks tab only to see the SHARE icon greyed out.
I checked all the e-pubs I had written notes in with the same result.
I added new notes to see if this was it wanted, no luck.

Has anyone else experienced this or the contrary, been able to export their notes?
Is there something about the e-pub itself that is required for this to work? I have made all my e-pubs via Calibre.

Most frustrating

MacPro early 2008, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 6GB RAM 2TB HD Pioneer 112 and 118 superdrives

Posted on Dec 15, 2010 6:21 PM

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Feb 3, 2012 10:55 AM in response to Sam Katz1

Just Found a way to export notes and highlights this

if you have a mac.


Get iExplorer here

http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/


plug in your iOS device and use iExplorer to

look in the books file and drag the following files to your desktop.

iBooks.plist and iBooksData2.plist


and this app

https://github.com/lgoss007/BookmarkExtractor


put the files in the appropriate spot and you can get your highlights

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