How to Export Highlights and Notes from Google Play Books | Chapterly Blog
How to Export Highlights and Notes from Google Play Books Quick Answer: Google Play Books has three real export paths, and none of them are surfaced anywhere obvious in the app. The most reliable is the auto-backup: on the web at play.google.com/books, open a book, click the three-dot More menu, choose Save annotations to Google Drive, and toggle it on — this creates a per-book file in a "Play Books Notes" folder in your Drive, and it keeps updating as you add annotations (after you make at least one new highlight, note, or bookmark to trigger the first sync). For a one-time pull instead of ongoing sync, open a book's Annotations panel, click More > Export annotations, and pick specific collections or highlight colors to export as a file. A third option, Google Takeout, lets you export your whole Google Play Books annotation history at once — but it truncates highlight text past whatever character limit the book's publisher allows for copying, so long highlights can arrive clipped. For most readers, the Google Drive auto-backup is the best default because it is the only method that keeps working automatically after the initial setup. If you read on Google Play Books...