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NOOK User Guide Bookmarks, Highlights, and Notes 138
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 aected 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.