Comments on: Kindle Notes And Highlights Now Accessible On the Web

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:54:49 +0000

… reading … means you can copy (and paste somewhere else) what you wrote OR you can JUST read on the screen?

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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:33:43 +0000

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By: Tarun Reddy

Tarun Reddy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:21:26 +0000

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By: nomar

nomar — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:32:39 +0000

The Germany base startup http://txtr.com/ is, afaik, going in this direction, by building a community around their eReader.

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Amazon Kindle : toutes vos notes accessibles depuis le web! | eBouquin — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:27:27 +0000

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TECHNOLOGY « Daily Marauder — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:38:06 +0000

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Amazon Takes Personal Kindle Notes, Ratings Online | MobileJewels TechNews — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:58:02 +0000

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Amazon Takes Personal Kindle Notes, Ratings Online | MostReviews.com — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:41:31 +0000

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By: Amazon Takes Personal Kindle Notes, Ratings Online

Amazon Takes Personal Kindle Notes, Ratings Online — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:28:55 +0000

[...] not a big annotator on the Kindle, but I soon might be. According to Techcrunch, Amazon just added a new feature that syncs yours notes from the e-book device right to the web. [...]

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:32:30 +0000

It looks like someone is already developing a desktop add on to the kindle:

http://www.kindleair.com

By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:21:32 +0000

If by minimal added price, you mean doubling the cost.

Touchscreens are expensive.
Touchscreens that don’t ruin the reading experience by destroying clarity (a la the Reader 707) are even more expensive.

By: Steffan Antonas

Steffan Antonas — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:02:11 +0000

Sharing and editing via the web seems like an obvious evolutionary step, especially with the release of the new larger Kindle for Text Books. Man, I’d love to be able to share snippets in FriendFeed so I could get comments and start a discussion. I’m sure this is where they’re headed…they’re probably just purposefully treading lightly and iterating a ton with each step.

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By: Free Freebies

Free Freebies — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:05:16 +0000

the only things stopping me is that the battery runs out so fast

By: Sam Levenback » Kindle Note Share

Sam Levenback » Kindle Note Share — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:28:09 +0000

[...] This is pretty neat. A Kindle owner can now view their notes and highlights on the Internet. Which means sharing of said notes and highlights can’t be far behind. [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:38:30 +0000

i see this feature targeting the textbook market – an area Amazon is definitely targeting as part of its eReader strategy.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:29:07 +0000

i sure wish the kindle 2 didn’t treat magazines and newspapers as 2nd class citizens! those are my preferred content sources for the device and yet the iPhone app doesn’t support sync of this content *and* the new web feature to manage notes/highlights doesn’t feature notes/highlights from magazines/newspapers! why is amazon crippling this functionality? very disappointing.

By: Rohit Nallapeta

Rohit Nallapeta — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:09:14 +0000

The logical step forward for kindle to generate more business is enable sharing of these notes and highlights. The quotes from a book sent to a sharing place is bound to generate more interest in the book and can be used for easy quote sharing. The possibilities are unlimited…

By: Wayne Martin

Wayne Martin — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:41:29 +0000

This has got to be a “teaser” feature. What good are one’s notes on a WEB-site? What is needed is the ability to get the notes on your PC/Laptop so that you can use them.

The user should be able to give a command to the e-book Reader to upload notes to a “server” of some sort–be that “server” the Amazon WEB-site, or a person’s PC/Laptop. The notes should have the date, book name, and page number with which the notes were associated, should that be the case.

Hopefully Amazon, and Sony, will have these features designed and in their respective e-book Readers quickly.

People also will want to upload whole paragraphs of text too, using this same upload feature.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:27:13 +0000

I’m only getting a small subset of my books at this time. It appears to be just the last 8 I’ve purchased.

By: craig

craig — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:07:30 +0000

have any other food reviewers put themselves on kindle for download and seen results? Not sure if I should put http://www.worstpizza.com on there yet?

By: Dex

Dex — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Not sure but won’t sharing “excerpts” run into copyright issues? (What if I make the whole book or a whole chapter an excerpt and share that with my friends?) – probably the reason why Amazon is shying away from sharing at this point.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:17:17 +0000

No point in doing annotations without a touchscreen. Amazon could provide a Wacom touchscreen interface on the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX for very minimal added price and very limited amount of loss of clarity, but they don’t.

Sharing annotations online, collaborating on editing texts, documents, reports will become one of the biggest killer applications in connected ebooks. Imagine 12 people collaborating on writing a report on something, all being able to see each-others notes and corrections in real-time like on Google Docs, imagine teachers collaborating on reviewing, annotating, commenting, correcting school reports by students, also sent digitally.

This whole thing will be huge, but you need a wacom touchscreen stylus input, ou need handwritten interaction with text (including online based handwriting recognition), you need USB host or Bluetooth input of a full sized foldable keyboard to input text just as fast as on a laptop.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:09:51 +0000

Looks like it might be a cool feature. My problem is that I use the Kindle outside of the US, so it never gets the chance to sync to Whispernet.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:02:02 +0000

This might be exactly what I need so I can grade my student’s papers and give them feedback on the Kindle!