How to See Your Kindle Highlights — All in One Place

Kindle keeps your highlights in three different places, and none of them shows you everything. Here's where to look — on the device, on the web, and in the hidden clippings file — and how to bring all of it together in one searchable spot.

Where Kindle stores your highlights

  1. On the device or in the app: open a book, tap the center of the screen, then Go To → Notes (on the phone app: the notebook icon). You'll see that book's highlights — one book at a time.
  2. On the web: go to read.amazon.com/notebook and sign in with your Amazon account. This is your Kindle notebook — every book bought on Amazon, with its highlights and notes listed per book.
  3. In My Clippings.txt: Kindle e-readers also write every highlight into one plain-text file. Connect the Kindle via USB and look for documents/My Clippings.txt — this is the only place where highlights from sideloaded books show up.

Why the notebook page isn't the full picture

  • It only lists books bought on Amazon — personal documents and sideloaded books are missing.
  • Some publishers cap how much highlighted text Amazon may display, so long passages get cut off.
  • There's no search across books, no tags, and no way to work with the highlights — it's a read-only list.

See every highlight in one searchable place

The free Import Kindle Highlights tool merges both sources: upload your My Clippings.txt, or pull books straight from the notebook page with the browser extension. Each book becomes its own page — searchable, taggable, and ready to export — and the file is parsed in your browser, so your reading stays private.

Book picker showing imported Kindle books, each with its highlight count

Good to know

  • Deleted a book from your Kindle? Its highlights usually survive — on the notebook page for purchased books, and in My Clippings.txt for everything else.
  • The phone app has no My Clippings file; it syncs to the notebook page instead.
  • Once imported, you can review the highlights as flashcards instead of just reading them — that's the part that makes them stick.

Bring your highlights together

Import from My Clippings.txt or your Kindle notebook and see every book's highlights in one place — free, no account needed.

Open the Import Kindle Highlights tool

Ready for the next step? Learn how to export your Kindle highlights to PDF, Markdown, or Notion, or turn them into flashcards you'll actually review. Ready-made decks live on the free learning hub.