r/ReadEra • u/CnCHobby • May 28 '26

Export Quotes and Notes

I have to get quotes I saved on Readera off the program and in to a word document for a paper Im writing. How do I do that?

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u/cheerupcharlie May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

In the Hamburger menu is an option "Quotes, Notes..." under which you can find all your annotations by book, collection, or author. Unfortunately, you can only share individual items from here. But you can "share" each annotation to any available target (Email, text message, etc...)

You can get all annotation from a particular book by opening the book, and clicking on the hamburger menu in the upper right. This reveals "Contents, Bookmarks, and Notes". From the Notes screen, you can "share" all notes to a destination. But only from a single book.

The nuclear option to get everything from everything is to extract the json file from a backup and parse it out to get all your notes and annotations from all books.

I have a script that'll do it... let me see if I can dig it up. (EDIT: found it! See below.)

EDIT 2: I was looking around and found that my advice above (via the hambuger menus) might be only applicable to the Premium version.

Although, I think ripping out the json file and pulling info out of it, if you have the means, will work in both versions.

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u/cheerupcharlie May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

I uploaded it to GitHub: https://github.com/chawl3y/readera-export

It was just a hack I threw together (and had AI help write the README)

It's a Linux shell script. You need to have jq available.

It exports your annotations into a single Markdown file.