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New app Stitch extracts e-book highlights from Kobo and Kindle

A new macOS application called Stitch has been developed to help users extract highlights from their e-books. The tool, which also offers a command-line interface for Linux users and an AI skill, aims to solve the problem of getting highlighted text off devices like Kobo and Kindle. Stitch is currently in beta and available for free. AI

IMPACT Provides a niche tooling improvement for e-book readers, with minimal industry-wide impact.

RANK_REASON This is a new software tool release, not a frontier model release, significant industry move, or academic research.

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New app Stitch extracts e-book highlights from Kobo and Kindle

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    I try to be an avid ebook reader, and I tend to highlight a lot of things while reading. I've never found a nice way to get the highlights off my kobo or kindle

    I try to be an avid ebook reader, and I tend to highlight a lot of things while reading. I've never found a nice way to get the highlights off my kobo or kindle so I made a little application to do it. It's called Stitch, and If you use macOS it has a nice simple UI (there is a c…