Prices are usually comparable but they don’t always have the same books, due to licenses being sold separately in different copyright regions.

Users outside North America may find that Amazon wants you to buy from a separate Kindle store for your country.

Make sure you buy Kindle books that say they have ‘real page numbers’ on the purchase page - most journals won’t let you cite location numbers.

This is useful, because many ebook apps block you from using copy and paste - or you might be reading the book on a tablet but writing on your laptop. Recently, Amazon incorporated the Notes and Highlights function into the Kindle app for Mac (and possibly Windows, but I don’t go there).įor each quote, you can copy the highlight text or ‘star’ it for later reference. See the tips for searching your annotations below.Īccessing your notes and highlights laterįor years, there was a little-known trick to access your notes and highlights - you could visit a page on the Kindle website and scroll through them there. It can be combined with other tools like Evernote or Zotero (or even Atlas.ti) to bring those quotes alongside your other data. I use notes the way I might scribble a short comment in the margins of a book I own.Īs part of a toolkit - the Kindle Notebook solves a particular problem: how to get your quotes and annotations out of a Kindle ebook. You can even open Kindle in your browser, though it’s a bit clunkier this way.Īnnotating - highlight some text with your finger or the mouse, and a floating box will pop-up, offering a choice of different highlight colours or the option to make a note. Reading - you can read on any phone or tablet device, or using the Kindle app for your laptop. In this post: workflow | accessing notes and highlights later | tips for use | about But I have an extensive library of theory classics in Kindle format, so I’m ‘locked-in.’ Luckily, the Kindle app is getting increasingly useful for academic writers.

There are reasons, now, to consider alternative sources: the well-documented cruelty of Amazon towards its workers. Most of my library was purchased from Kindle. They make it easy to access key texts no matter where you are. Needless to say, much as I love my paper books, they’re a hassle to lug around. I applied from Melbourne, moved to Canberra for my first year, moved to Sydney for the first tranche of my fieldwork, and soon I’ll be moving again to Montreal for a fellowship.

See more about my goals and bio at the end.Ī friend recently described my postgrad study as a ‘backpacker PhD’. This post is the first in an occasional series, looking at sensible tools for scholars.

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