Annotations in the Kindle App

Yesterday I discovered that the Amazon Kindle app on my Viwoods AiPaper Mini had been updated and now supports handwritten annotations. It looks like this update is currently only available on Android and is due to Amazon’s recent release of its Alexa tablets. The functionality appears to be the same as has been available with the Kindle Scribe. The Kindle app has long supported highlighting and adding notes via the device’s keyboard. Notes are typed into a small window that, when closed, leaves a small note icon to the top right of the highlighted text. I have long used this to save important passages and associated notes in Readwise Highlights. The new annotation function provides a way to handwrite notes in a Kindle book much like one would with a physical book. To use the function you first have to show the writing toolbar, which you can move to the left or right edge of the screen. With the toolbar displayed, you can write a note directly on the page and once the note is saved,…

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