NOOK User Guide Bookmarks, Highlights, and Notes 138Highlights and NotesHighlight what you read to draw your attention to specific passages. You can associate notes withthe highlights.You can highlight and annotate eBooks in EPUB and PDB formats in both sections of yourlibrary, with one exception: You cannot highlight and annotate borrowed books. You alsocannot highlight and annotate periodicals in My B&N Library, eBooks in PDF format, andeBooks that you are reading with Read In Store.Highlights and notes are related:• A highlight draws your attention to text. For example, you might want to highlight a word,sentence, or paragraph. The highlight is displayed as a light gray color background around thewords. The highlight includes the words, but not the terminal punctuation. You can show andhide highlights.• A highlight can also serve as an anchor in the text for a note. A note is text that you canoptionally associate with a highlight. The text says what it says, but you might have something tosay about it.• A highlight with or without a note is indicated by this always-on marker in the left margin, at thebeginning of the line where the highlight starts:• You cannot enter a note without a highlight. You can use a one-word highlight.When you add or edit a highlight, a D-pad controller appears. The up and down arrows move thecurrent position (indicated by a word highlight) to the prior or next line. The left and right arrowsmove the current position to the prior or next word.A highlight cannot span pages (in the sense of what is displayed each time you press a pageturn button). The maximum length of a highlight is affected by the amount of text that fitson the page. You can highlight a longer passage with text size Small than Large becausemore text fits on a page. If you change the text size, it is possible that existing notes wouldspan page boundaries. If this happens, the notes are truncated at the end of the page forthe current text size. Choosing the text size used when the highlight was created displaysthe entire highlight.Procedures for Highlights and NotesWhen navigating in an EPUB file, the up and down arrows on the D-pad controllersometimes skip lines (for example, the last line in a paragraph if that line contains only oneword). You can reach every word using the left and right arrows.
