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Adding Notes and Highlights

You can highlight text and add notes to specific sections of a book

Highlighting Text

To highlight text in a book, complete these steps:

  1. While browsing a book, select the section of text that you want to highlight.
  2. Click the double arrows (») for Highlight. 
  3. Select a color. 

The section you selected will be highlighted in the color you selected.

Adding a Note

To add a note to a book, complete these steps:

  1. While browsing a book, select the text to which you want to add a note.
  2. Click the double arrows (») for Add Note and select a color.
  3. Type your note and click Save Note. The section will be highlighted in the color you selected and a Note icon added to the right margin of the text.

Reviewing Notes and Highlights for a Book 

To access all of the notes and highlights that you have added to a book, click the double arrows (») to show the toolbar and click the Highlights & Notes icon. All the notes and highlights in the book are listed. Click a note or highlight to jump to the text to which the annotation is attached.

Editing or Deleting a Highlight 

To change the color of the highlighting, click anywhere in the highlighted text and click the double arrows (») for Update Highlight and select a color.

To delete any highlights added to text, click anywhere in the highlighted text and click Delete Highlight.

To delete highlighting while viewing the Highlights & Notes list, hover over the annotation you want to remove and click the delete sign.

Editing or Deleting a Note

To edit or delete a note, select the highlighted text in the book or click the Note icon on the right margin of a page and then edit or delete the note.

To delete a note while viewing the Highlights & Notes list, hover over the annotation you want to remove and click the delete sign.

Copying Notes

To copy the notes and highlights from one book to an updated version of the book, complete these steps:

  1. While viewing your library, move your cursor to the right side of the screen next to the version to which you want to copy your notes. 
  2. Click the down arrow. 
  3. Click Import Annotations. 
  4. Select the title of the previous version (the version from which you want to import the notes). 
  5. Click Import.

Imported annotations are listed in the book’s updated version in Highlights & Notes. If annotations could not be placed in the new title because the text of the updated version to which you have attached your annotations has changed, the imported annotation will be listed in Highlights & Notes under Displaced Annotations. 

Working with Displaced Notes 

To reassign a displaced note, complete these steps:

  1. While browsing a book, select the text to which you want to attach the note. 
  2. Click Attach Displaced Note. 
  3. Select the displaced note you want to attach. 
  4. Click Attach. 

Displaced highlights cannot be reassigned. To remove displaced highlights or unattached notes, perform the steps described in “Deleting a Highlight” or “Editing or Deleting a Note.”