How Can You Use Annotations on Kindle?

Annotations (bookmarks, highlights, notes, clippings) you make on a Kindle book are stored in your Kindle Library on Amazon.com when your Kindle is connected to wireless. When you open the title on any registered device, you’ll be right where you were the last time you read and your annotations will be included.

To view your annotations: Open your title, press the Menu button and select “My Notes & Marks.”

Adding Bookmarks

You can place a bookmark at any location and place multiple bookmarks in whatever you are reading. Select “My Notes & Marks” to return to any bookmarked location. Bookmarked pages have a “dog-ear” icon in the upper right corner.

To place a bookmark:

1. Go to the page that you want to bookmark.
2. Press the Menu button.
3. Highlight and select “Add a Bookmark” using the 5-way controller.

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.

To view a bookmarked location:

1. Press the Menu button and Select “My Notes & Marks.”
2. Highlight and select the desired location from the list.

To remove a bookmark:

1. Go to the bookmarked page.
2. Press the Menu button.
3. Highlight and select “Delete Bookmark.”

To remove several bookmarks at one time:

1. Press the Menu button and select “My Notes & Marks.”
2. Underline the bookmark you want to remove with the 5-way controller.
3. Press the Delete key.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to remove additional bookmarks.
5. Select “Close Notes & Marks” when finished.

Highlighting Passages

You can highlight text in Kindle like you would use a highlighter pen on paper and view them at any time by pressing the Menu button and selecting “My Notes & Marks.” The text you highlight appears with a gray underline.

To highlight one or more lines:

1. Use the 5-way to position the cursor where you want to start highlighting.
2. Press the 5-way to anchor the cursor.
3. Move the 5-way to select the desired text. Use Next Page or Prev Pages to highlight text across multiple pages.
4. Press the 5-way at the place where you want the highlight to end.

To remove a highlight:

1. Press the Menu button and select “My Notes & Marks.”
2. Underline the bookmark you want to remove with the 5-way controller.
3. Press the Delete key.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to remove additional highlights.
5. Select “Close Notes & Marks” when finished.

Viewing Popular Highlights

Amazon displays Popular Highlights by combining the highlights of all Kindle customers and identifying the passages with the most highlights. The resulting Popular Highlights help readers focus on passages that are meaningful to the greatest number of people. Some books don’t have enough highlighting in them to have Popular Highlights. Popular highlights are marked with a gray dashed underline in your reading. You can see Popular Highlights for all books that have them at kindle.amazon.com.

To view Popular Highlights:

1. Open a book on your Kindle.
2. Press the Menu button and select “View Popular Highlights” from the options.

To turn Popular Highlights on and off:

1. Navigate to Kindle’s Home screen and press the Menu button.
2. Select “Settings.”
3. Select the desired option next to “Popular Highlights.”

Managing Popular Highlights

If you have a Kindle device, you can turn off having your highlights in popular highlights by turning off Annotations Backup in Settings on your device. If you have a Kindle App, we will be adding this capability soon. Annotations BackUp backs up your annotations and last page read and syncs them across devices. You can also remove highlights you made previously from Popular Highlights.

To turn off Annotations Backup:

1. Navigate to Kindle’s Home screen and press the Menu button.
2. Select “Settings.”
3. Select the desired option next to “Annotations Backup.”

To remove previous highlights from Popular Highlights:

1. Visit the AmazonKindle website and login using the e-mail address and password for the Amazon account you used to register your Kindle.
2. Select “Your Highlights” from the Browse options at the top of the page.
3. Select “Delete this highlight” next to each highlight you wish to remove.

Adding Notes

Kindle allows you to add comments, make notes, and mark up passages just as you might in a printed book.

To add a note:

1. Move the cursor to where you want to place a note using the 5-way controller.
2. Type your note.
3. Select “save note” at the bottom of the screen.

A superscripted number appears where you inserted your note. Notes are numbered in the order they appear in the content and update automatically if you add more.

To edit or delete a note:

1. Select the note’s number using the 5-way controller so the note appears at the bottom of the screen.
2. Press the Return key to edit the note or the Delete key to delete the note.
3. Use the keyboard to make changes if editing.
4. Select “save note” to save any changes.

Making Clippings

You can “clip” an entire periodical article and save it to the “My Clippings” file.

To clip an article:

1. Go to the article you want to clip.
2. Press the Menu button.
3. Select “Clip this Article.”

To view your clippings:

1. Press the Home button to display the Home screen.
2. Select “My Clippings” from the Home screen.

Editing the “My Clippings” File

All of your bookmarks, highlights, notes, and clippings are stored in the “My Clippings” TXT file on your Kindle. You can transfer and copy the file to share and use your clippings.

To transfer the “My Clippings” file and open it on your computer:

1. Connect your Kindle to your computer using the USB cable.
2. Use your computer’s file browser to view the Documents folder on Kindle.
3. Transfer the “My Clippings” file from Kindle to your computer.
4. Open the “My Clippings” file on your computer using an application that can read or import a .TXT file.

If you wish, you can make changes to the file and transfer it back to your Kindle. 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:

1. Press the Home button to display the Home screen.
2. Underline “My Clippings” on the Home screen.
3. Move the 5-way controller to the left.
4. Press the 5-way to select “Delete.”

Kindle adds a new “My Clippings” file the next time you add a clipping or annotation to any content.

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