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Kindle also gathers the annotations and bookmarks you've made across all your various books, magazines, newspapers, and personal documents and places them in the "My Clippings" file in your Home screen. See “Using Clippings” for more information on My Clippings.
The list below explains the types of annotations:
Bookmarks — mark an entire page for later reference. You can create bookmarks in books, PDF documents, and personal documents.
Highlights — mark a passage on a page for later reference.
Notes — add your thoughts about a passage.
The sections below explain how to add annotations.
Tip: All of your annotations and bookmarks on a Kindle book are backed up at Amazon in case you transfer your Kindle to another person or lose your device. When you download a previously annotated book from Amazon, your annotations and last location read will come down with it. When you open the book, you will be right where you were the last time you read the book and all of your annotations will be included. Note that your "My Clippings" file is not listed as a separate downloadable item. In addition, you can review your notes, highlights, and see Popular Highlights at http://kindle.amazon.com (U.S. and other countries) or http://kindle.amazon.co.uk/ (U.K. customers).
Using Bookmarks
Although Kindle automatically saves your place whenever you stop reading, you may also want to add additional bookmarks to a book, PDF document, or personal document. You can place a bookmark at any location, and you can have multiple bookmarks in whatever book you are reading. When you add a bookmark, it is associated with the first location on the page. If you change text size, the bookmark will still be associated with that location. You can return to a bookmarked location at any time.
Kindle stores all your bookmarks for the current content along with your annotations. You can view them at any time by pressing the Menu button and selecting "View My Notes & Marks." See “Viewing Your Annotations” for more information
Placing a Bookmark
To place a bookmark in a book, PDF document, or personal document:
Go to the page that you want to bookmark.
Press the Menu button.
Move the 5-way controller down until "Add a Bookmark" is underlined. Press the 5-way to select.
A dog-ear icon in the upper right corner of the page will appear, indicating that the page is bookmarked.
Tip: You can quickly create a bookmark by either holding down the Alt key and pressing the "B" key, or by moving the 5-way up or down to go into cursor mode and then pressing the 5-way controller twice.
Viewing Your Bookmarks
To view your bookmarks, press the Menu button and select "View My Notes & Marks." Bookmarks are listed in the order in which they occur in the content. Each bookmark entry shows a location number and the first line of the bookmarked location.
To go to a bookmark location, navigate to the bookmark and press the 5-way.
There is no limit to the number of bookmarks that you can set.
Removing a Bookmark
To remove a bookmark:
Go to the bookmarked page.
Press the Menu button.
Move the 5-way controller down until "Delete Bookmark" is underlined. Press the 5-way to select. The bookmark is removed.
You can also delete a bookmark on the page by holding down the Alt key and pressing the "B" key.
To remove several bookmarks at one time:
Press the Menu button.
Move the 5-way controller down until "View My Notes & Marks" is underlined. Press the 5-way to select it.
Using the 5-way, navigate to the bookmark you want to remove.
Press the Delete key .
Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have removed all unwanted bookmarks.
Move the 5-way down until the "Close Notes & Marks" button is highlighted and press the 5-way to exit. You can also exit this view by pressing the Back button.
Using Highlights
You can highlight text in Kindle like you would use a highlighter pen on paper. Kindle stores all your highlights for the current content in your annotations. You can view them at any time by pressing the Menu button and selecting "View My Notes & Marks." See “Viewing Your Annotations” for more information.
Kindle also stores everything you highlight in your "My Clippings" file.
Highlighting a Passage
To highlight one or more lines, follow these steps:
Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.
Use the 5-way to position the cursor where you want to start highlighting.
Press the 5-way.
Move the cursor right (or left) to where you want your highlight to end. You can turn pages if you want to highlight text across multiple pages.
Press the 5-way at the place where you want the highlight to end.
Notice that the text you highlighted appears with a gray underline.
Deleting a Highlight
To remove a highlight while reading a book, follow these steps:
Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.
Navigate the cursor over the highlight you want to remove.
Press the Delete key .
To remove a highlight from your list of highlights, follow these steps:
Press the Menu button.
Use the 5-way controller to underline "View My Notes & Marks". Press the 5-way to select it.
Using the 5-way, navigate to the highlight you want to remove.
Press the Delete key .
Use the 5-way controller to select "Close Notes & Marks" and press the 5-way to exit. You can also exit this view by pressing the Back button.
Displaying Popular Highlights in Your Books
Popular Highlights help our readers focus on the passages and ideas in a book that are the most meaningful to the greatest number of readers. We anonymously collect all the highlights added to a book by Kindle customers and merge them together to determine a book's most frequently-highlighted passages. If a passage in a book is a Popular Highlight, we will highlight that passage and we will also display the total number of people who have highlighted that passage.
Popular Highlights are available only for books, and not for periodicals or personal documents. By default, Popular Highlights are displayed in your books, but you can turn them off if you don't want to see them or if you don't want your highlights to be anonymously included in Popular Highlights.
To turn Popular Highlights on or off:
If you are not already on the Home screen, press the Home button.
Press the Menu button.
Use the 5-way to underline "Settings" and press to select.
Use the 5-way to underline "turn on" or "turn off" next to the "Popular Highlights" setting and press to select.
Viewing Popular Highlights in a Book
If Popular Highlights are turned on, as you read a book, you can see what the Kindle community thinks are the most interesting passages in that book. Those passages will already be highlighted and will also display the total number of people who have highlighted that passage.
Tip: If Popular Highlights are turned on, you can press the Return key to hide or show the number of highlighters.
To view a list of all Popular Highlights in a book, follow these steps:
While reading the book, press the Menu button.
Use the 5-way to underline "View Popular Highlights" and press to select. A list of the book's Popular Highlights appears. By default, the list is sorted by popularity. If this option appears dimmed, make sure you enabled the Popular Highlights feature in Settings. See “Displaying Popular Highlights in Your Books” for instructions on enabling Popular Highlights. If Popular Highlights are enabled but this option still appears dimmed, then the book has no Popular Highlights.
To sort the list by location, use the 5-way to underline the Sort options.
Use the 5-way to underli
ne the “Location” sort option.
Press the 5-way to confirm. The list immediately changes to the new sort order.
To close the Popular Highlights list, use the 5-way to underline "Close Popular Highlights", and then press the 5-way to select it.
A book's Popular Highlights will change over time, and highlights that were once popular may be displaced by others as readers continue to add or remove highlights in the book. If there are certain passages in the book that you want to be able to refer back to, then highlight those passages yourself.
If you do not want your own highlighted passages to be counted in Popular Highlights, you must turn off Annotations Backup in Settings. Keep in mind that if you turn off Annotations Backup, your notes, highlights, and bookmarks will not be backed up by Amazon, and they will not be displayed on other devices registered to your Amazon account. Also, if you lose or damage your device, there will be no way to retrieve your notes, highlights, and bookmarks.
Not all books contain Popular Highlights, and some books do not have enough highlighted passages to have even a single Popular Highlight passage. When you are reading such a book, if you press the Menu button you will notice that the "View Popular Highlights" option will appear dimmed.
Updating Popular Highlights in a Book
Popular Highlights may not be available for the books you already own. If a book you already own does not include them, you can check for Popular Highlights by following these steps:
Press the Home button.
Press the Menu button.
Use the 5-way to underline "Sync & Check for Items" and press to select.
If there are Popular Highlights for the book, then you will see them the next time you open the book. If you press the Menu button while reading the book and the "View Popular Highlights" option is still dimmed, then no Popular Highlights are available. Try checking again later.
Using Notes
You can add notes on what you are reading. Kindle stores all your notes for the current content in your annotations. You can view them at any time by pressing the Menu button and selecting "View My Notes & Marks." See “Viewing Your Annotations” for more information.
To add a note, follow these steps:
Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.
Using the 5-way, move the cursor to the left of the word where you want to add your thoughts.
Type your note.
Using the 5-way navigate the cursor over "save note" and press the 5-way.
Notice the superscripted number where you inserted your note. Notes are numbered in the order they appear in the content, so if you later create another note on an earlier page, the numbering of the previously created notes will change.
To edit a note while reading, follow these steps:
Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.
Use the 5-way to move the cursor over the note's number.
The note appears at the bottom of the screen.
Press the Return key to edit the note.
Use the keyboard to make your changes.
Navigate the 5-way over "save note" and press the 5-way.
To edit a note while viewing your notes and marks, follow these steps:
Press the Menu button and select "View My Notes & Marks".
Use the 5-way to select the note you want to edit.
Press the Return key to edit the note.
Use the keyboard to make your changes.
Navigate the 5-way over "save note" and press the 5-way.
To delete a note while reading, follow these steps:
Press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. This displays a blinking cursor.
Use the 5-way to move the cursor over the note's number.
The note appears at the bottom of the screen.
Press the Delete key to delete the note.
To delete a note while viewing your notes and marks, follow these steps:
Press the Menu button and select "View My Notes & Marks".
Move the 5-way down to select the note you want to delete.
Press the Delete key to delete the note.
Tip: You can view your own notes and highlights and see Popular Highlights at http://kindle.amazon.com (U.S. and other countries) or http://kindle.amazon.co.uk/ (U.K. customers).
Viewing Your Annotations
To view your bookmarks, highlights, and notes, press the Menu button and select "View My Notes & Marks."
Each entry has a location number followed by the bookmark, highlighted passage, or note. Your annotations are listed in the order that they occur in the content. There is no limit to the number of annotations you can have. Use the Next Page and Previous Page buttons to turn the pages just as you would in a book.
To go to a location, use the 5-way to navigate up or down to select the bookmark, highlighted passage, or note and press the 5-way to go there.
Your annotations are also stored in your "My Clippings" file for later reference. See “Using Clippings” for more information.
Using Clippings
In addition to annotations, you can "clip" an entire periodical article to the "My Clippings" file. The "My Clippings" file contains all of the bookmarks, highlights, notes, and clippings you have made across all your content. Later, you can view the file or copy it to your computer as a text file. Once on your computer, you can edit it or send your clippings to someone else. Clipping and highlighting are a great way to capture your favorite quotes and share them with others.
To clip an article in a periodical:
Go to the periodical article that you want to clip.
Press the Menu button.
Use the 5-way controller to navigate down until "Clip this Article" is underlined. Press the 5-way to select.
Kindle adds your clipping to the "My Clippings" file. You can review your clippings later, search for words or terms you clipped, and transfer the "My Clippings" file to your computer.
To view your clippings, press the Home button to display the Home screen. Use the 5-way to navigate down until "My Clippings" is underlined. Press the 5-way to open it. While viewing the file, you cannot navigate through to the materials referenced in the file.
More about My Clippings
You can edit the "My Clippings" file on your computer.
To edit the "My Clippings" file:
Connect your Kindle to your computer using the USB cable.
Your Kindle should appear on your computer in the same location you would normally find an external USB drive.
Open your Kindle. You should see a folder entitled Documents. Transfer the "My Clippings" file out of this folder.
Open the "My Clippings" file on your computer using an application that can read or import a .txt file.
Make the changes and save the edited file as a text file.
Transfer the "My Clippings" file back to the "Documents" folder on your Kindle.
Eject your Kindle from your computer before removing the USB cable.
Changing your "My Clippings" file does not affect any notes, bookmarks, or highlights you've made in the actual content. The next time you read the content, you can still use them for navigation and reference.
To remove the "My Clippings" file from your Kindle:
Press the Home button and use the 5-way to navigate down until "My Clippings" is underlined.
Use the 5-way to navigate to the left to highlight “delete”.
Press the 5-way to confirm.
Press the 5-way to select "ok".
Kindle adds a new "My Clippings" file the next time you add a clipping or annotation to any content.
The amount of text you can add to the "My Clippings" file from each item may be limited. The "My Clippings" file will include a note informing you if a clipping limit has been reached for a given item.
3.6 Sharing Notes and Highlights with Your Social Network
You can link your Kindle t
o your social network accounts such as Facebook and Twitter so that you can share your notes and highlights with others in your social network. Sharing your notes and highlights is a great way to tell others about the books, periodicals, and personal documents you're reading.
Before you can share your notes and highlights, you must first link your Kindle to your social network accounts. See “Linking Your Kindle to Your Social Network Accounts” in Chapter 7 for more information.
Sharing Your Notes and Highlights
Sharing your notes and highlights with your social networks is easy once you've linked your Kindle to your social network accounts. For example, on Twitter, your note is added as a tweet in your Twitter stream along with a link to the passage you highlighted in the book, article, or personal document.
To share a new note, follow these steps:
While reading a book, periodical, or personal document, press Menu and choose “Add a Note or Highlight”. If you are zoomed in to a PDF page, press Menu and choose “Place Cursor in Page”. This displays a blinking cursor.
Move the cursor to the location where you want to add your note.
Begin typing your note. Notes must be no longer than 100 characters.
Use the 5-way to highlight "save & share" and press the 5-way.