Tech Tips: Amazon Kindle Highlights

When you are reading a Kindle book on your phone or on the web or using a Kindle device, you can highlight passages. (If it is a touchscreen, you use your finger to highlight; on your laptop browser you can use the mouse.). Those highlights are visible when you come back to the book, and you can also access your highlights at your Kindle online notebook. In this tip, you will highlight something in a Kindle book (on any device), and then access the highlighted passage so that you can copy-and-paste it into a blog post.

1. Highlight a passage. Open up any Kindle book and read until you find a passage you want to highlight.

2. Access notebook. Then, in your web browser, go to your Kindle notebook at read.amazon.com/notebook. You will see your Kindle books down the left, and when you click on a book, you will see all the highlights to the right. You can copy-and-paste from this webpage:

All your highlights from all your Kindle books are accessible right there in your Kindle notebook. If you use Diigo, there's also a handy feature that allows you to export all your notes for a book to Diigo automatically. 

Write your post. To finish up this tip, write up a post where you copy-and-paste a highlighted passage from a Kindle book. Have you used this feature before? (Just speaking for myself, I find the Kindle highlights/notebook feature to be incredibly helpful!) Use this title for the post: Kindle Highlights, and use "Tech Tip" for the post label. 

When you are done with the blog post, you're done with this Tip and ready to do the Declaration.