Two honest ways in.

Arriving

Built, and being proven with real libraries before it switches on. The steps below are how it works.

If you already send Kobo’s highlights to Readwise, connect Readwise and your Kobo books arrive with Kobo still on them. If you don’t, Kobo exports each book’s annotations as a file — share up to twenty of those at once, and the files are both the consent and the selection.

Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Nook calls itself OBN in its own screens — short for Our Book Nook.

Steps

In Kobo, export a book’s annotations (Markdown, HTML, text, or PDF).
Select up to 20 of those files and share them to Bring books to OBN.
If a title could be two of your books, Nook asks once: Same book?
That’s it — no second picker, no confirmation screen.

What comes across

What stays private

Good to know

Kobo’s exports don’t carry an edition id, so a plausible match asks once and is then remembered.
Some publishers restrict export, and because you choose which files to share, every import is marked partial — Nook can’t know what you left out.

The official steps, from them Every source

Start with one book.

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