Copy text from Amazon's Cloud Reader. Helpful for students that need block quotes.

bookmarklet-expanded.js

javascript: (function () {
  new_window = window.open();
  new_window.document.body.innerHTML = $("iframe")
    .contents()
    .find("iframe")
    .contents()
    .find("body")
    .get(1).innerHTML;
  new_window.document.body.querySelector("#content-overlays").remove();
})();

bookmarklet.js

javascript:(function(){new_window=window.open();new_window.document.body.innerHTML=$("iframe").contents().find("iframe").contents().find("body").get(1).innerHTML;new_window.document.body.querySelector("#content-overlays").remove();})();

same-window-expanded.js

javascript: (function () {
  document.body.innerHTML = $("iframe")
    .contents()
    .find("iframe")
    .contents()
    .find("body")
    .get(1).innerHTML;
  document.body.querySelector("#content-overlays").remove();
  document.head.querySelectorAll("link[type]").item(0).remove();
  Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("span.k4w")).forEach((span) => {
    span.outerHTML = span.textContent;
  });
})();

same-window.js

javascript:(function () { document.body.innerHTML = $("iframe") .contents() .find("iframe") .contents() .find("body") .get(1).innerHTML; document.body.querySelector("#content-overlays").remove(); document.head.querySelectorAll('link[type]').item(0).remove(); Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('span.k4w')).forEach((span) => { span.outerHTML = span.textContent }); })();

It seems it doesn't work anymore 😢

They got smarter.

I've been able to write a script for copying text from kindle cloud reader for years. Every time they'd just bury the text sneakier and sneakier but if it was in the DOM then you'd get to it eventually. Now they're rendering all the text out as images. They finally stumped me lol. I haven't dabbled with image to text before but regardless it seems like the days of the humble javascript bookmark might be postponed indefinitely.

OCR works for me, e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/copyfish-ocr-software/

If you are on Windows you can try Power Toys' Text Extractor, using win-shift-T. (it handles line breaks poorly, but…)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-extractor

Is there a way to fetch all the highlighted/annotated text?
I found an API that https://read.amazon.com/service/mobile/reader/getAnnotations that can fetch all the annotations but it trims the text.

annotations": [ { "action": null, "asin": "B00KHX0II4", "context": "WHENEVER I INTERVIEW someone for a job, I like to ask this question: “What important truth do very few", "deviceType": null, "dsn": "A2CTZ977SKFQZY00A1DMFVGPSDC5D6", "end": 2804, "guid": "CR!PHRBPX0FRX5Q335QZ3CR3J4D92EC", "highlightColor": null, "isSample": null, "modifiedTimestamp": 1527091882000, "note": null, "position": 2648, "positionType": "Mobi7", "start": 2648, "type": "kindle.highlight" }]

There is a context field that returns the annotated/highlighted text but it trims the text. It does not show the complete text.
Is there a way to fetch the highlights/annotated in realtime?

Easy copy with this extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kindle-reader-cloud-tools/mahdfgndibpomhlkckklblllfefbliem