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I have taken a series of notes in a book that I read on Google Play books. Is there a way to export these notes all together as a text document or some similar format?

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  • They might have some kind of solution here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/6006461?hl=en – Ko Ga May 09 '15 at 03:07

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Google has changed this and now if you have Android device you can get your notes on Google Drive. Simply do this:

  1. Open Play Books on your Android device
  2. Go to Settings
  3. Save notes, highlights and bookmarks in Google Drive - turn this ON

This feature is still not perfect. The biggest problem I have is that page number is not recorded properly for most books. Instead, you just have link that opens the page in Google Play Books. Meaning, it'll probably work for you personally, but sharing notes and making sense of notes on different devices is problematic.

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  • This correctly exports the full contents of the notes. Thanks for pointing this out. – ashishsony Jan 08 '16 at 22:30
  • This is a long shot, but there's a [Google Books API that has functions for exporting annotations](https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/documentation/books/v1/java/latest/com/google/api/services/books/model/Annotation.CurrentVersionRanges.html). Don't know if it works for Play Books. – Owen Oct 12 '20 at 21:07
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It isn't perfect but here is one way to do it. After doing this you will receive a zip file with your book(s) and an HTML (or JSON) file with your notes.

Follow this link to the Google Data Tools https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/downloads

Click the Create New Archive button
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Click the Select None button

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Go down to Google Play Books and flick the switch on

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Hit the down arrow

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Either download all or click on the Select Books radio (a popup will appear where you can select none again and search at the top)
After you have chosen your books, go to Next at the bottom
Pick your export options and you're good to go.

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    The long notes this way were truncated, so cant be kept elsewhere as backup. The answer for looking the notes in google drive below works fine, and the notes are of full length in drive. – ashishsony Jan 08 '16 at 22:33
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there is no such available function at the moment. I have submitted a request already, let's see what google developers say.

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    Currently, it is not documented in the API official page. But I'm pretty sure there is a method, because they are using it in the Java Library https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/documentation/books/v1/java/latest/ ( see: Annotations ). – Andrea Dec 23 '14 at 16:12
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It works on some books and not others apparently. I can't produce a summary/review of Guttag's book for my class.I have the print version and just bought the Playbook version.

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