Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 9:03 AM
Like many of you, we love to highlight and mark up our books, capturing insights, important notes to remember, or even gathering opinions to later share with our favorite authors. Starting today, you'll also be able to break out the colored highlighters and pens with Google eBooks in the Web Reader.
To start adding notes, first open your web browser and find your Google eBooks in your My eBooks bookshelf (make sure you are signed into your account at the top right hand corner of your screen). If you don’t have any ebooks yet, you can start your collection with a free classic from Best of the Free bookshelf, or purchase an ebook from our eBookstore. Then, click on the book to open it in the Web Reader.
You should be able to select the text you want to comment on by dragging or double-clicking with your mouse. A context menu will appear, and you can then click on "Add Note".
A notepad will be displayed where you can write down your notes and pick a highlight color too. In addition, you can add multiple lines of notes, and format them with bold or italic font style. To make text bold, place the text between two asterisks (*), and to italicize text, place it between two underscores (_). For instance:
You can also just pick a color from the bottom of the original context menu to highlight the text, without adding notes:
After adding notes, you can conveniently see all your notes in the ebook by clicking on the "Margin Notes" icon at the top right of the Reader. The menu will show you all the text you've highlighted text and the notes you've made on them. You can click on each result to go to the corresponding page in the book.
To edit or delete a note, hover your mouse over the highlighted text until a pop-up menu appears. Then click on the "Edit" or "Delete" button to make the change.
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11 comments:
Coming soon to Mobile Apps?
Is Google working on note sharing? See the beginnings of a relevant discussion at https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/d/topic/books/u29eGPTOikw/discussion
please, add underline in colors...asterisks in colors...more colors to choose
This is going to be very helpful, thanks! I like the way of using asterisks and underscores instead of markup. It's definitely going to be much easier this way :)
great feature..and it is perfect that even a book is removed from the library, the notes do not go away and become available again once the book is added to the library.
Can't wait to see it in your mobile apps.
Please consider the following:
1) Adding an option to export notes.
2) Sharing specific notes or all notes with specific people (maybe via Google+ integration).
3) Adding some form of this feature to scanned pages.
It'd be great if we could share notes on Google plus, to share with friends our thoughts on a specific part of a book.
Finally! Thank you! The only thing that is lacking is the ability to see ALL your notes from ALL your books in one place! Please make this a feature! By signing into your kindle account you can see EVERY note you've ever made in ALL of your books, all in one place. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make this a feature! Thank you!
I still won't buy any Google Books until I can annotate them on my iPad.
Is it possible to copy, paste, or print out one's notes and highlighted text? One can do this on Kindle. If one cannot move one's notes into another program -- like MS Word -- then Google's eBooks are not really ready for academic prime time or for college students who need to mark up the books they buy and who would love to be able to transpose their notes.
I am getting "oops! there is a problem" responses every time I try to add a margin note or highlight text. Help!
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