Do something useful with your Kindle notes :) This script extracts individual words from My Clippings file hidden on your Kindle e-reader, translates them using Google Translate and exports the pair "original word" → "translation" into a .txt file from which you can learn these words or import them into an application such as Quizlet.

• Use DeepL rather than Google Translate.
• Dictionary definitions.
• Improve regex formula to better deal with words that have special characters.
• Extract single words from source file.
• Output list line by line.
• Use API to translate words.
• Skip the same words on subsequent imports.

• 0.12.3: Fixes to regex formula so it also takes words with , & —.
• 0.12.2: Print which folder was created for exported files.
• 0.12.1: Renamed variables & export files' names to improve readability.
• 0.12: Be able to select source & target languages.
• 0.11: Added input timeout.
• 0.10: Take input file directly from Kindle once drive letter is given.
• 0.9: Export files to specific folders based on today's date & ID.
• 0.8: Add script runtime info.
• 0.7: Fixes to regex formula so it also takes words with ., - & ".
• 0.6: Print translations directly to kindle-words_export-{DATE}.txt.
• 0.5: No more duplicate words.
• 0.4: Fixed charmap' codec can't encode character (...) problem that occured with PL characters.
• 0.3: Translation with googletrans lib.
• 0.2: Output list line by line + export to a .txt. file.
• 0.1: Initial release. Extract single words from source file using regex.

Using SemVer.

GNU General Public License v3.0, see LICENSE.md.

• https://stackabuse.com/text-translation-with-google-translate-api-in-python/
• https://pypi.org/project/googletrans
• https://regex101.com/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56995919/change-python-3-7-default-encoding-from-cp1252-to-cp65001-aka-utf-8
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/print-lists-in-python-4-different-ways/
• https://stackabuse.com/writing-to-a-file-with-pythons-print-function/