Google Play Books

Google Play Books can export the notes and highlights from a book to a Google Doc. Once you have that document, you can bring it into Becoming.

This is a one-time import, not a live sync. When you highlight more later, export again and import the newer document — Becoming skips anything it already has.

Export from Google Play Books

1. In Google Play Books, turn on the setting to save your notes to Google Drive. Google Play Books writes your highlights and notes to a Google Doc.
2. Open the generated Google Doc in your Google Drive.
3. Choose File → Email → Email as attachment, and change the format from PDF to HTML.
4. Save the .html file that gets emailed to you.

Import into Becoming

1. In the web app, go to your Library.
2. Click Add source and choose Google Play Books.
3. Upload the .html file (or paste the exported HTML, if prompted). The content must be HTML.
4. Becoming reads it, matches it to a book, and adds your highlights.

What gets imported

• Your highlights from the exported book.
• Your notes, when they’re part of the export.
• The book’s title and author, so it lands as a Book in your library.

Highlights are deduplicated by content, so importing the same notes twice never creates duplicates.

See also

• Import overview — all the ways to bring highlights in.
• Import failures — if the import comes in empty.