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Mike
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Aug 08, 2017 06:34PM
Changes to Kindle,
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I know that a fairly good number of members use Kindle to read book selections. I have also been using the highlighting feature to mark specific lines of text that were of interest. Kindle used to keep track of your highlights in a separate data set in the cloud. This was a very useful feature to review a book or to include quotes in a paper you may be writing. Amazon has discontinued this service, which breaks my heart.However, Amazon has said that comments will be available on Good Reads. I do not know how this will work but wanted to let all of you know about the change.
As I find out more I will post it. Please let everyone know if you have more information.
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Oh that's horrible, Mike. In general I don't care for ebooks, but that was one of the features I liked about Kindle. Now there is even less reason to buy them.
Manny wrote: "So let me understand. The highlights are not on the tablet itself? Do the ones that are there disappear?Oh that's horrible, Mike. In general I don't care for ebooks, but that was one of the featu..."
The highlights may still be available on GR. I don't know but am trying to find out more; I really hope they are.
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Oh that's horrible, Mike. In general I don't care for ebooks, but that was on..."
But why would my highlights and notes not be on the tablet itself. I don't synch to any cloud. As far as i can tell they are on the Kindle memory. Now if I should archive the book, and then tried to reload it back, I can see how the highlights and notes would be lost.
Just to finish this thread. The highlights created on kindle that were updated when users sync'd their devices are on:read.amazon.com
I checked and all of my previous highlights are there and I am able to down load them. This will save a lot of re-typing when trying to quote from a previous book.
