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Adding highlights and notes
Bookmarks are great for jumping to pages you want to read again and again. Of course, you may in-
stead want to highlight specific words or passages within a page. And sometimes you want to add
your own annotations or comments as well, which is handy for school assignments. Pardon the pun,
but Apple is on the same page. Here's how to do both:
1. Press and hold your finger down against any text on a page. Then lift your finger to
summon the Highlight and Note buttons.
These two buttons appear side by side, sandwiched along with Define and Search buttons that
we address in a moment.
You see grab points along the highlighted word.
2. (Optional) Refine the highlighted section by expanding the grab points.
3. Choose a button to add a highlight or note:
When you tap the Highlight button, the word or passage you selected is high-
lighted in color. You can later read the highlight by returning to the Table of Con-
tents page in the same way that you find a bookmark. (See the preceding section
and refer to Figure 10-5 .)
Tap Note, and a Post-it-like note appears on the screen. Using the virtual key-
board, type your note.
After you add a highlight or note, the following tips are handy to know:
Remove a highlight or note. Tap the highlighted text or note and, from the toolbar that ap-
pears, tap the circle icon with a red line running diagonally inside. Alternatively, from the
Highlights & Notes section under the Bookmarks list, swipe your finger in either direction
along an entry and tap the red Delete button that appears.
Change the highlighted color of a highlight or note. You can change the color from the de-
fault yellow to green, blue, pink, or purple. Touch the highlighted selection for a moment and
lift your finger. From the toolbar, tap the icon with the color that you prefer.
Share or print notes. From the Table of Contents page, in the upper-right corner of the
screen, tap the Action icon (it looks like an arrow trying to escape a rectangle). Tap Email to
e-mail your notes, or tap Print to print them (provided you have a compatible printer). You
also have options to share via Message, or post on Twitter, Facebook, or the Chinese social
network (if a Chinese keyboard is enabled) Sina Weibo. We don't know how that will play
politically in China. See Chapter 2 for details about printing. Meanwhile, to see other possib-
ilities for notes and iBooks generally, read the nearby sidebar, The iPad goes to school .
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