📝💬 Obsidian forum link for this plugin
I love reading paper books or on eReader devices while taking notes on my laptop or phone, but it massively interrupts my flow to capture quotes from the book.
The existing solutions are essentially either:
Air Quotes for Obsidian is a method for near-instant inserting of direct quotes from a source text.
Here's a demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhP02zbiVS4
You first need a Markdown format version of the book in your vault. The plugin can handle creating this for you. This text is the source for the quotes.
Import ePub file
.Link the source text note to your current note by adding a source_text
property, and adding the link to your source text. You can customise the name of this property in the Settings if you like. You can also use a Dataview property instead if you prefer.
That's it! Now you can run the "Insert quote" command.
Absolutely, it works great!
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which already has its own search feature?EPub import is considered feature-complete for the purpose of importing an ePub file to use as the source text for quotes.
If you require additional features for your ePub import, you can use one of the many existing fully-featured ePub to Markdown tools such as Pandoc or Calibre.
If someone wants to code a feature up and submit a Pull Request I'll have a look at it, but I have no current plans to add anything additional myself to the ePub import.