Free Kindle Tool

Kindle My Clippings.txt Viewer & Parser

Upload your My Clippings.txt file and instantly parse Kindle highlights, notes, metadata, and timestamps. Search by book, filter by entry type, and download clean JSON or Markdown.

1) Upload My Clippings.txt

Select your Kindle export directly. Parsing happens in-browser.

No account required. No file upload to server.

2) Paste text (optional)

Paste raw My Clippings content if you prefer not to pick a file.

What is My Clippings.txt?

My Clippings.txt is the plain-text file Kindle creates to store your highlights, notes, and bookmarks. Each clipping includes metadata like book title, page/location, and added date.

What is this tool for?

This Kindle My Clippings parser helps you quickly view, search, sort, and export your clippings as JSON or Markdown. It is useful for cleanup, analysis, backup, and moving highlights into other workflows.

What is Screvi?

Screvi is a highlights manager and digital commonplace book. This parser is a free companion tool offered by Screvi, while the full product helps you organize, review, and rediscover highlights across all your reading sources.

Learn more about Screvi

How to find My Clippings.txt

  1. Connect your Kindle to your computer using a USB cable.
  2. Open the Kindle drive and go to the documents folder.
  3. Find and copy the My Clippings.txt file.
  4. Upload or paste the file content into this page to parse and view your entries.

What this parser extracts

  • Book title and author
  • Highlight, note, bookmark type
  • Page and location metadata
  • Added-on timestamps when available
  • Full clipping text content

Kindle My Clippings format example

The parser expects the standard Kindle structure separated by ==========.

The 5 Types of Wealth (Bloom, Sahil)
- Your Highlight on page 6 | location 161-162 | Added on Thursday, 6 February 2025 09:10:06

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
==========

FAQs

Does this Kindle My Clippings parser upload my file?

No. Everything runs locally in your browser. Your My Clippings.txt content is not sent to our servers.

What can this viewer extract from My Clippings.txt?

It extracts book title, author, highlight/note type, page, location, timestamp, and clipping content, then presents it in a searchable format.

Can I export parsed Kindle clippings to JSON or Markdown?

Yes. After parsing, you can download a clean JSON file or a Markdown export and use it in your own scripts, notes, or workflows.

How do I get My Clippings.txt from Kindle?

Connect your Kindle with USB, open the documents folder, and copy the file named My Clippings.txt.

Can this parser handle notes and bookmarks too?

Yes. It parses highlights, notes, and bookmarks, and labels each entry so you can filter quickly.

Does this work with non-English Kindle metadata?

Yes. The parser includes multilingual metadata matching for common page and location labels used in Kindle exports.

Why do some entries show empty text?

Bookmark entries often have no body text in My Clippings.txt. In those cases, metadata is still parsed and shown.

Can I search inside all my Kindle highlights after parsing?

Yes. Use the built-in search field to filter by quote text, book title, author, and metadata details.

Is there a file size limit for My Clippings.txt?

There is no hard app-level limit in this tool, but very large files may depend on your browser and device memory.

Is this Kindle My Clippings tool free?

Yes. This viewer/parser is a free companion tool offered by Screvi and does not require an account.

How is this different from Screvi?

This page is a standalone parser/viewer. Screvi is the full highlights platform where you can organize sources, review highlights, and search them semantically.

Can I import parsed highlights into Screvi?

Yes. You can use this free parser to inspect/export your data, then import your Kindle highlights into Screvi for long-term organization and review.

Can this viewer remove duplicate or truncated highlights?

For cleanup and deduplication, use our free Kindle Highlights Cleaner tool. This page focuses on parsing, viewing, filtering, and export.

Need more than a viewer?

Screvi helps you organize Kindle highlights across books, review them with spaced repetition, and search by meaning with AI.

Need to clean duplicate or truncated clippings first? Try our Kindle Highlights Cleaner.

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