In recent months Amazon has released several updates that allow you to save and sync notes and highlights from your ebooks in separate files that you can export to other programs like Microsoft Word or even share with other users who have that ebook.
Other companies don't have this capability like Kobo, but a user recently launched a website called KoboNotes , a website that functions as a web application and offers the same thing as Amazon updates: exporting notes and highlights from our Kobo ebooks.
KoboNotes is a free tool available to everyone, simple to use but also potentially dangerous. To receive notes from our ebooks, KoboNotes requires uploading the koboreader.sqlite file from our device. After a few minutes, the web application will send us the necessary files to work with our notes.
Kobonotes could put our personal data at risk
But we're also sending all our ebook data to someone unknown . This data includes not only the ebook titles but also DRM data, watermarks with our personal information, eReader information, and so on—tons of data that, in the wrong hands, could pose a danger to us.
The truth is that many users have tried KoboNotes and it works well; there are no reports of fraud or anything similar. However, it's also true that if we look at its website , we only find an email address. We have no information about who is behind it, so the possibility of a scam is real and high. Normally, we would know details about the creator or the company that manages it, and we also don't know in which country the server or the creator is located.
Come on, this is information that will be useful if we have problems with the application. Personally, I consider it risky , and if I want to export my notes, I'll continue using Calibre and the notebook to solve this problem. What do you choose?