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A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights

The skill extracts every highlight from a Kindle notebook page into a single Markdown file, recovering the 1,038 export-blocked highlights (537 truncated, 501 fully hidden) by cross-referencing the Mac Kindle app’s SQLite annotation data and the Cloud Reader’s rendered pages. Tested on five books with 2,733 highlights, the recovered text matches the app’s position ruler within a median residual of 0–1 characters, using macOS-only tools such as AppleScript, Vision OCR, and Swift helpers.