Highlights and Notes

Highlight what you read to draw your attention to specific passages. You can associate notes with the highlights.

You can highlight and annotate eBooks in EPUB and PDB formats in both sections of your library, with one exception: You cannot highlight and annotate borrowed books. You also cannot highlight and annotate periodicals in My B&N Library, eBooks in PDF format, and eBooks that you are reading with Read In Store.

Highlights and notes are related:

•A highlight draws your attention to text. For example, you might want to highlight a word, sentence, or paragraph. The highlight is displayed as a light gray color background around the words. The highlight includes the words, but not the terminal punctuation. You can show and hide highlights.

•A highlight can also serve as an anchor in the text for a note. A note is text that you can optionally associate with a highlight. The text says what it says, but you might have something to say about it.

•A highlight with or without a note is indicated by this always-on marker in the left margin, at the beginning of the line where the highlight starts:

•You cannot enter a note without a highlight. You can use a one-word highlight.

When you add or edit a highlight, a D-pad controller appears. The up and down arrows move the current position (indicated by a word highlight) to the prior or next line. The left and right arrows move the current position to the prior or next word.

A highlight cannot span pages (in the sense of what is displayed each time you press a page turn button). The maximum length of a highlight is affected by the amount of text that fits on the page. You can highlight a longer passage with text size Small than Large because more text fits on a page. If you change the text size, it is possible that existing notes would span page boundaries. If this happens, the notes are truncated at the end of the page for the current text size. Choosing the text size used when the highlight was created displays the entire highlight.

Procedures for Highlights and Notes

When navigating in an EPUB file, the up and down arrows on the D-pad controller sometimes skip lines (for example, the last line in a paragraph if that line contains only one word). You can reach every word using the left and right arrows.

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