NOOK Tablet: Out of the Box

Highlight, Notes, Research, and Sharing

While you’re reading, you have a number of options for personalizing, researching, and sharing portions of text that strike your interest. To show these options, you first need to select text. Do so by tapping and holding on a word, which will bring up a text selection toolbar (Figure 6-14). To expand the selection you want to highlight (or note), tap on one of the edges of the highlighted word or phrase and drag left or right to include more words. Dragging an end up or down highlights all words on the lines between and up to the end point.

Figure 6-14. Text selection toolbar

Here’s how to use the options in the menu that appears over your highlighted text.

Highlight

Just as you might use a highlighter to call attention to an important passage in a printed took, you can highlight text in your NOOK book too. It’s just as easy, but it gives you more options than its dead-tree counterpart. With text highlighted and the text selection toolbar visible, just tap Highlight. Now, the passage will retain the highlighted look of selected text.

But unlike using a real highlighter, you can change the color of any highlight you add, which comes in handy if you want to color-code different passages according to themes or some other categorization. To do so, just tap on any portion of highlighted text and tap a new color in the Change Color portion of the options ...