kobo2readwise gets highlights out of your sideloaded Kobo books and into Readwise. When you sideload a book, its highlights are saved only on the device — Readwise can't fetch them, so this reads them in your browser and sends them over.
.kobo folder on the drive.Yes — for books from the Kobo store, Kobo Plus, and library loans. Those go through Readwise's own Kobo integration. But highlights from books you sideloaded never reach the cloud, so Readwise can't see them — that's the gap this fills. Keep Only sideloaded books checked so you don't duplicate what Readwise already has.
It's sent to Readwise to check and sync, then forgotten — never stored or logged on the server (there's no database and no request logging).
Remember on this device is optional: it saves the token only in this browser's local storage, never on the server. Click Disconnect to erase it, and leave it off on a shared computer.
No. The database is read entirely in your browser (with sql.js, which is also served from this site), and the file never leaves your computer. Only the highlights you sync are sent — through a thin proxy — to Readwise.
Chrome or Edge on desktop. They support the File System Access API this relies on. Firefox, Safari, and phone/tablet browsers don't — there's no workaround on those.
It's in a hidden .kobo folder at the root of the Kobo drive. Turn on "show hidden files"
in your file manager, or copy the file to your Desktop first and pick it from there.
By default only sideloaded books are shown. Uncheck Only sideloaded books to include everything. Empty highlights are skipped.
Re-copy the full token from readwise.io/access_token and connect again.