The Notecard Box shows on your Kindle screen and you’ll have the option to share, delete, or edit your note. If you need to edit a note, then tap on the number that appears at the bottom right of the highlighted note section. When you’ve finished writing notes, tap Save in the lower right of your notecard.Finally, you can add notes with the on-screen keyboard and note card that appears.Then, the toolbar appears at the top of your highlighted text.To make Notes on your Amazon Kindle, just swipe the area of text that you want to be noted, highlighting it. So, that’s how you can highlight and remove a highlight on your Amazon Kindle. If you come back later and you no longer need certain text highlighted, you can tap on it and choose to delete it, and the highlight gets removed. If you’d like to undo the highlight right then, tap ‘undo’ in the toolbar that appears.After you take your finger off the Kindles surface you’ll see a notification telling you that you’ve just made a highlight. Just drag your finger over the text that you want to highlight.About as simple as highlighting a physical book, in fact. You can do this for a book or a document you’ve stored on your Kindle, and it’s easy to do. Let’s talk about how you can add a highlight to your Amazon Kindle while you’re reading. Above is just what the Kindle Notes and Highlights dashboard looks like when it hasn’t been used, so you know you’re in the right place when you get to this page. After you’ve logged into your Amazon account, you’ll now have access to all your Kindle highlights and notes.Īs you can see, I don’t currently have any notes or highlights to display. Next, you’ll see the following page in your browser window.Then, log in to your Amazon account if you’re not already signed in.To see the highlights or notes you’ve taken while on your Kindle, you can simply go to a website and view them on your computer, or whatever other devices you’re using to access the website. How? Well, that’s where we come in with the details to help you figure it all out. Once you’ve highlighted text or taken notes while reading your Kindle, did you know you can view them online? Yes, you can.
Perhaps you need to take notes to write a review or write a paper, but you don’t want to try and keep track of it in a separate document. You may like to highlight parts of a digital book for reference or to remember key sayings or quotes. Open it up, select all, copy, and then paste into a new document and you’re done.Rather than just allowing you to read and nothing more, there are things you can do while you’re reading your digital content to keep track of important points. Navigate to /Documents/My Clippings.txt and guess what? It’s a text file with all your highlights. From there you can view the files on your Kindle from the Mac’s Finder. If you plug your Kindle into your computer it will go into USB mode. For some reason, clicking that link must have jogged the system. When I then went back to the Kindle Highlights page, all my highlights were now there. Clicking on that sent me over to the Amazon page where I can fiddle with all the items in my Kindle Library. However, under my username in the top-right corner, is a link to “ Manage Your Kindle“. And then, when I did log in, it was showing no highlights for me. At first, I was unaware that this site even existed. If you go to you can view all your highlighted passages. There are two ways you can access your highlights: (Thanks to Kindle Genius Scott McNulty for the tips and tricks.) In my review of the Amazon Kindle, one of my quibbles was how the passages I highlight are “locked in” on the device.