KOReader + Readwise + MyBibliotheca: Put Your Reading Data in One Place

Readers who love data often end up with a surprisingly fragmented setup.

Your books are in one service.

Your ebook progress is in KOReader.

Your highlights are in Readwise.

Your audiobook listening history is somewhere else.

Your TBR is another list entirely.

Each tool may do its job well, but the result can feel like your reading life has been split across five databases.

MyBibliotheca is built to sit in the middle of that workflow.

It can connect KOReader reading progress, direct KOReader highlights, Readwise annotations, print books, audiobooks, reading sessions, TBR planning, and your existing Goodreads or StoryGraph history in one private reading library.

KOReader knows where you are

KOReader already tracks your location inside the ebook.

MyBibliotheca can use KOReader's progress-sync system so that reading position can be associated with the correct book in your library.

That means your ebook progress does not have to be manually recreated after every session.

For readers who use KOReader on Kobo, PocketBook, Kindle, reMarkable, Android, or another supported platform, this can remove one of the most repetitive parts of book tracking.

Readwise knows what you saved

Readwise solves a different problem.

It collects highlights and notes.

If Readwise is already part of your workflow, MyBibliotheca can connect to it using a Readwise access token and import your annotation data.

Once a Readwise book is matched with a title in your MyBibliotheca library, its highlights and notes can appear on that book's detail page.

You can also enable daily Readwise synchronization.

Readwise remains the source of the original annotation collection.

MyBibliotheca becomes the place where those annotations sit beside the rest of your reading history.

Or send KOReader highlights directly

Readwise is optional for KOReader users.

MyBibliotheca also has a separate KOReader plugin that sends highlights and notes directly from the device.

That gives you two possible workflows.

Option 1: Direct

KOReader → MyBibliotheca

Best when you primarily want KOReader annotations attached to books in your personal library.

Option 2: Readwise-centered

KOReader or other sources → Readwise → MyBibliotheca

Best when Readwise already collects highlights from several different reading sources.

There is no need to pretend one workflow is right for everyone.

MyBibliotheca supports both because readers build their reading stacks differently.

MyBibliotheca adds the missing context

A highlight service knows about highlights.

An e-reader knows about the current file.

A reading tracker can connect that information with the rest of the book.

For a title in MyBibliotheca, you can also maintain:

• reading status
• reading sessions
• page or percentage progress
• audiobook minutes
• start and finish dates
• edition details
• rating
• private notes
• series position
• TBR information
• reread history

This is where disconnected reading data begins to look like one coherent record.

Readwise sync stays one-way

MyBibliotheca's Readwise integration is designed as an import.

Readwise remains the source of truth for the original collection.

MyBibliotheca does not need to take over management of your Readwise account in order to display imported highlights beside your books.

That makes the relationship easier to understand:

Manage your original Readwise annotations in Readwise.

Use MyBibliotheca to see them in the context of your personal library.

Matching prevents annotations from landing on the wrong book

Book data is messy.

Multiple editions may share the same title.

Authors may have different formatting.

Subtitles may vary.

MyBibliotheca only automatically links a Readwise record when it can make a safe match.

Otherwise, the book waits for you to choose the correct library entry.

The same general principle applies to KOReader documents.

That little bit of friction is useful.

It is better than discovering later that a year's worth of highlights were attached to the wrong edition.

Keep reading history private

Putting more of your reading data in one place makes privacy more important, not less.

MyBibliotheca is private by default.

Your annotations, reading sessions, TBR reasons, and personal notes are designed to be useful to you first.

You can share specific reading artifacts when you choose, but the application does not require a social feed to function.

Add audiobooks and print books to the same history

KOReader and Readwise naturally skew toward digital reading.

Your actual reading life probably does not.

MyBibliotheca can also track print books and audiobooks.

Audiobooks can use minutes, duration, percentage, and listening position rather than pretending every format is page-based.

That means the same reading timeline can contain:

• a Kobo ebook
• a PocketBook EPUB
• a paperback
• a 14-hour audiobook

Different formats.

One reading history.

Bring Goodreads or StoryGraph history with you

If Goodreads or StoryGraph contains years of past reading, MyBibliotheca can import that library too.

That creates a useful progression:

Past reading: Goodreads or StoryGraph import

Current ebook progress: KOReader sync

Annotations: KOReader plugin or Readwise

Print and audio: MyBibliotheca reading logs

Instead of choosing which part of your reading life to preserve, you can bring the pieces together.

A reading stack should feel connected

Using several reading tools is not the problem.

The problem is when none of them talk to each other.

MyBibliotheca is designed as the personal library layer that connects more of those tools without forcing you to abandon them.

Create your MyBibliotheca library and connect KOReader, Readwise, or both to bring more of your reading history into one place.

Further reading

• Import Readwise highlights and notes
• Sync KOReader reading progress
• Send KOReader highlights directly

Send KOReader Highlights and Notes Directly to Your Reading Tracker

You highlighted the passage because you wanted to remember it.

So why should it stay buried inside one ebook file?

For KOReader users, MyBibliotheca provides a direct way to send highlights and notes from your e-reader into the same private library where you track your books.

The MyBibliotheca KOReader plugin works separately from Readwise. You can open a book in KOReader, send that book's annotations, and then view them on the matching book page in MyBibliotheca.

For readers using Kobo, PocketBook, Kindle, or another KOReader-supported device, that turns the e-reader into part of a much larger reading archive.

Highlights are more useful when they stay attached to the book

A giant export file full of highlighted sentences is technically a backup.

It is not necessarily a useful reading system.

A highlight becomes much more meaningful when it sits beside:

• the book title
• the author
• the edition
• your rating
• your personal notes
• when you read it
• your reading progress
• other highlights from the same book
• your series information

MyBibliotheca keeps annotations connected with the book rather than treating them as an unrelated text dump.

Send annotations directly from KOReader

The MyBibliotheca KOReader plugin can send the current book's highlights and notes straight to your MyBibliotheca account.

That means Readwise is not required for the KOReader workflow.

Once configured, the basic pattern is simple:

1. Read and highlight normally in KOReader.
2. Open the MyBibliotheca highlights plugin.
3. Send the current book's annotations.
4. Open the matching book in MyBibliotheca.
5. View the highlights and notes in the private annotation section.

This gives KOReader users a direct path from the device to their reading library.

Keep annotations private

Highlights can be more revealing than a list of books.

They show exactly which ideas caught your attention.

A private annotation might involve:

• work
• philosophy
• religion
• health
• relationships
• personal reflection
• research
• travel
• politics
• something you simply do not want to publish

MyBibliotheca is private by default.

Your annotations do not need to become posts, reviews, or social activity.

They can simply remain part of your own reading record.

Use separate KOReader credentials

MyBibliotheca's KOReader integration uses dedicated sync credentials rather than your normal website password.

The highlights plugin uses those same KOReader-specific credentials.

This means you do not have to enter your primary MyBibliotheca login password into the e-reader plugin.

It also gives you a cleaner way to rotate or disable device access later.

What happens when the ebook title does not match perfectly?

Ebook metadata is rarely perfect.

Maybe the file says:

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

while your library contains a specific translation with a subtitle and different edition information.

MyBibliotheca can keep an uploaded KOReader document unmatched until you confirm the correct library book.

That is safer than forcing a fuzzy match and putting annotations on the wrong edition.

Once linked, future annotations belong with the book you selected.

Combine highlights with KOReader progress sync

The annotations plugin becomes especially useful when paired with MyBibliotheca's KOReader progress sync.

These are two separate integrations.

Progress sync handles where you are in the ebook.

Highlights and notes sync handles what you saved from the ebook.

That distinction matters.

Your progress may change dozens of times during a book.

Your annotations represent the moments you intentionally wanted to preserve.

MyBibliotheca can keep both.

You can still use Readwise

Direct KOReader syncing does not mean you have to stop using Readwise.

Some readers use Readwise as a central annotation service across Kindle, web articles, PDFs, and other sources.

MyBibliotheca can import highlights and notes from Readwise too.

So there are two useful paths:

Direct KOReader path

KOReader → MyBibliotheca

Use this when you primarily want KOReader annotations in your private library without depending on another service.

Readwise path

Reading sources → Readwise → MyBibliotheca

Use this when Readwise already consolidates annotations from several different places.

Both can fit into the same broader goal: keep the things you learned from books close to the books themselves.

Add the rest of the reading experience

Once the book exists in MyBibliotheca, annotations are only one part of the record.

You can also track:

• reading sessions
• percentage or page position
• start and finish dates
• rereads
• ratings
• private notes
• series
• editions
• TBR information
• reading timeline activity

That is the difference between storing highlights and maintaining a reading archive.

Why this is useful for Kobo and PocketBook readers

KOReader is popular partly because it lets readers use a consistent reading environment across different hardware.

You might move from a PocketBook to a Kobo and continue using KOReader.

A MyBibliotheca library gives your annotations a similarly device-independent home.

The e-reader can change.

The book file can change.

Your reading history can remain in one place.

Do not let your best reading notes disappear into the device

A highlight usually represents a moment when you stopped reading long enough to say:

I want to keep this.

Your reading tracker should respect that.

MyBibliotheca connects those moments back to the books, progress, notes, and reading history around them.

Try MyBibliotheca and connect the KOReader highlights plugin to keep your annotations with the books that created them.

Further reading

• Send KOReader highlights and notes to MyBibliotheca
• Sync KOReader progress with MyBibliotheca