Export Apple Books to Markdown

What you get

• A file per book: its author, genre, progress, rating, whether you finished it and its cover in the front matter, then its description, and the full text of books without DRM
• Its highlights in a second file, as quotes, and notes that have no passage in a third
• An ibooks:// link that opens the book in Books
• After each sync, journal/media.md lists the books you finished and the highlights you added

Where the files go

alto-index/books/The Long Garden - Ana Ribeiro.md
alto-index/books/The Long Garden - Ana Ribeiro_highlights.md
alto-index/books/images/

What you choose

• Tick the books to export; All, Recent and Finished help you find them

Left out

• Hidden books and samples
• The text of store books with DRM
• The page or location of a highlight

Free and paid

Your first 20 books export and keep syncing free. Then one purchase unlocks Apple Books: on its own, as one of any three apps, or with all of them. See pricing.

With Claude

The MCP server lets Claude Desktop search your highlights, and /altoindex:search in the Claude plugin searches them with everything else.