Kindle2Anki – Create Anki Card Decks from your Kindle Vocabulary Builder’s vocab.db

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What is Kindle2Anki?

Kindle2Anki is a little Flask app that lets you create Anki card decks from your Kindle vocabulary builder‘s vocab.db, an sqlite database that lives on your kindle and captures all the vocabulary that you cared to look up on your Kindle.

How do I use Kindle2Anki?

  1. you upload your Kindle’s vocab.db
  2. you choose a book for which to capture the looked-up vocabulary
  3. You choose an online dictionary from which to look up word definitions.
  4. you choose a card type (A: Word and Usage on card front / definitions on the back, B: vice versa)
  5. you then create an Anki Card deck at the click of a button
  6. you download your deck and and import it into Anki

Greatly Improved Learning Efficiency / Vocabulary Retention

While Kindle’s native vocabulary builder offers only very basic flash card functionality that frankly, is quite unwieldy and lacks advanced features like spaced repetition, Kindle2anki allows for automated and practically effortless creation of flash cards to study the very vocabulary you looked up on your Kindle. But now, harnessing the feature richness of Anki, with spaced repetition, synchronisation across devices and much better usability, you dramatically increase the odds for this vocabulary to make it into your long-term memory. Reviewing vocab from your Kindle has just become so much easier and comfortable as you have it all handy on your mobile device, ready to be made productive use of while waiting for or traveling on a bus or train or whatever your chunks of otherwise dead time may be.

Immense Time Savings

Just Imagine the time it would take to manually create the flash cards for hundreds of words that you looked up when reading a hefty foreign language volume: Minutes for a single card just for looking up the definitions in a dictionary and then copying and pasting words and definitions and usage examples into a flash card app. Doing this for dozens or hundreds of cards would amount to a tedious, draining and dispiriting exercise taking many hours.

With Kindle2Anki, that effort that would have gone into the creation of a single card now goes to create of an entire card deck.

If you are a Kindle user, try it out.

Supported languages are currently EN 🇬🇧, DE 🇩🇪, FR 🇫🇷, ES 🇪🇸 and PT 🇵🇹.

You find Anki here, in case you are not yet using it and want to give a try.