The pop-up defines the word - very helpful with some polysyllabic authors! - and among the buttons shown is one “Note”. You can see that I’ve tapped and held my finger over the word “Then”. Here I am reading the great detective thriller The Bedlam Detective on my Kindle Fire HD: And seeing other people’s material? Possibly impossible. It’s easy to highlight passages and add notes as you go along, but I will warn you that it’s a bit more work to have them accessible to the public at large, which is probably a good thing.
Problem, is, the shared notes feature is quite poorly implemented. If you and your Mom are okay with your notes and highlights being available to anyone who is reading that same ebook - which is pretty benign from a privacy perspective - then you can at least theoretically tap into the Kindle system.
The Kindle reader app does indeed support shared passage highlights and pop-up “Post-It” style notes, but what you ask is beyond what it can do because you can’t just share it between two people. Well, as long as they don’t go overboard. If it’s a textbook I dislike it because I want to draw my own conclusions from the text, but if it’s just about anything else, the additional reader commentary is fascinating stuff and something I much appreciate. As someone who has been reading used books either from a borrow, a used bookstore or the library, I’m all too familiar with marginalia, notes, highlights and underlines (and even an occasional spelling correction!) in books.
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