kindleclip(1)

📦 version 0.6, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💖 kindleclip(1) — the girlies' guide to your Kindle clippings 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual for kindleclip, a General Commands Manual situation, and honestly? it's giving utility. it's giving main character energy for your reading habit. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

kindleclip — a whole user interface for managing Amazon Kindle's My Clippings.txt file. yes, THAT file. the one with all your unhinged 3am highlights in it 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kindleclip [clippings_file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so Amazon Kindle devices store a My Clippings.txt file — that's where the bookmarks, highlights and notes live, no cap. this application lets you search within the clippings, filter the contents, and copy and paste to other applications. literally the whole vibe.

🫶 okay important disclaimer moment: this program is in no way endorsed, promoted or associated with Amazon. it is not — and does not aim to be — an official Kindle project. periodt. we're just out here doing our own thing ✨

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • [clippings_file] — kindleclip accepts as its only argument the path to the My Clippings.txt file to use. if none is provided, it will try to open it in the current directory, and exit with an error message if it does not exist 😭 (so like, if you don't tell it where the file is, it just assumes it's right there next to you and panics when it's not 🙈)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this program was written by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>. iconic behavior, honestly 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 go forth and organize those clippings. this was kindleclip(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 09 Aug 2011 — yeah she's a vintage queen but she still slays 💜⭐

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