Ebook readers: Do you use the highlight or bookmark?
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Ebook readers: Do you use the highlight or bookmark?
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Except for when I was little when I used to doodle a lot on my mother's sisters' college books to monopolise their attention, I really can't bear folding or marking my paperbacks' pages much more so for the hardbound pieces. Fancy sometimes handmade bookmarks from my kids do the trick for me.Bluebird03 wrote: ↑06 Feb 2019, 07:20 I am a natural born highlighter and love to do so in my hard copy books. So, I love the features in the Kindle to either highlight a sentence/paragraph or to bookmark a page. Do you use these features regularly?
I've also recently found and become fond of the electronic app's feature for colourful highlights, notes, and auto-summary. Listing and tracking down errors and observations for reviews have since become easier to do.
It's good to maximise the benefits that technology brings, although there are things that I hope they won't ever replace.
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I have a weird aversion to not wanting to mark up physical copies of books. So, if I am reviewing a book, I much prefer it to be on digital. Like you, I love the ability to highlight in different colors. I use my kindle notebook at the end of each book to help me write my reviews!Espie wrote: ↑06 Feb 2019, 08:03Except for when I was little when I used to doodle a lot on my mother's sisters' college books to monopolise their attention, I really can't bear folding or marking my paperbacks' pages much more so for the hardbound pieces. Fancy sometimes handmade bookmarks from my kids do the trick for me.Bluebird03 wrote: ↑06 Feb 2019, 07:20 I am a natural born highlighter and love to do so in my hard copy books. So, I love the features in the Kindle to either highlight a sentence/paragraph or to bookmark a page. Do you use these features regularly?
I've also recently found and become fond of the electronic app's feature for colourful highlights, notes, and auto-summary. Listing and tracking down errors and observations for reviews have since become easier to do.
It's good to maximise the benefits that technology brings, although there are things that I hope they won't ever replace.
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I'm still trying to finalise my standard colour-coding, but I'm considering to use yellow for the errors and perhaps blue for quotable quotes and pink for key elements and significant developments for the synopsis. I still don't have a use for the orange one, but it's good to know I've got another colour in case something else comes up. I do hope, though, there's a green one.Bluebird03 wrote: ↑08 Feb 2019, 14:09 Yes, Epsie. I take full advantage of the color selections offered with the Kindle. I'll typically use the blue one to highlight the story excerpts and orange for any errors. I bet the handmade bookmarkers are special, but the doodling was probably not as popular!
I was too small that the naughty doodling seemed cute and even became fond memories that my aunts would happily recount. Ereader features like these, though, make book reading in an always-rushing and technology-driven world like ours a bit easier, more productive, and worthwhile.
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I really enjoy the feature that shows what passages are highlighted the most. I think it's really interesting to see what other people reading the same book found interesting. Sometimes I feel the same way, but other times I have no idea why so many people were attracted to a certain phrase or passage.
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Same here! The ability to look up words easily is a wonderful feature. It really help keep the flow of reading going even if you have to stop for a second to read a definition. Much better than having to search up the word in a separate app or on Google.jesscat304 wrote: ↑12 Feb 2019, 19:18 I frequently use the bookmark in the kindle app and I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it. I honestly hardly ever use the highlight, but I do love the fact that I can look up the definitions of the words just in case I get stuck not that it happens very often.
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