Line breaks are not preserved in Notes

Whenever there are line breaks in Kindle notes, they are not preserved when those notes are synced to Obsidian. For example, in the following screenshot from https://read.amazon.com/notebook –

I have a line break between two paragraphs. The corresponding HTML code also has two <br/> tags:

<span id="note" class="a-size-base-plus a-color-base">
  Story about firefighters in Montana. They had jumped off a plane into a burning forest to try and contain the fire. But they quickly found out that they couldn't handle it and will have to run to safety. One of the firefighters started another fire to clear away the fuel in front of him, and lay down on the ground. 
  <br>
  <br>
  The fire reached him, bntouldn't burn him because the ground around him provided no fuel to fire. He survived. 12 others didn't.
</span>

However, when this note is synced to Obsidian, it loses the line breaks (the screenshot is from Edit mode):

I also looked at the code used to parse the notes, but couldn’t find anything wrong with it at first glance:

https://github.com/hadynz/obsidian-kindle-plugin/blob/5ad275fa8d14bcacf0cdc2347b3a549a11e15356/src/scraper/scrapeBookHighlights.ts#L57

Take a look into this please? It is mildly annoying!

[hadynz]

Thanks for raising this issue @rajatarora. It is quite a significant find as preserving line breaks is an important requirement that helps a user understand context of their highlights.

I also looked at the code used to parse the notes, but couldn’t find anything wrong with it at first glance:

The plugin uses cheerio for parsing HTML. The cheerio.text() method strips out all HTML. This includes any break lines meaning that we lose the ability of knowing when break lines used to exist. I would have to come up with a solution that does not use cheerio.text as it doesn’t support this functionality.

[rajatarora]

I used 0.2.18 to re-sync my books to Obsidian. Line breaks are showing up properly now! Thank you 😃