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Originally Posted by HarryT
How easy is it to annotate your books with the new nook? Does it support "free-hand" annotation using the touch screen, or do you enter annotations using a soft keyboard on the screen? Can you export your annotations?
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You can make bookmarks, highlights and annotations and view a summary list of each of these categories. It is very easy. You hold and press to highlight a word. Then you have the option to continue swiping to highlight a passage. A pop-up menu asks if you want to highlight the word/passage, create a note or use the dictionary lookup. [Side note: it is this extra-step of highlight then select look-up which is why some state the Kindle dictionary lookup is faster since it displays the definition on-screen based on where your cursor is.] It does not support free-hand annotations like the Sony. You have to enter them by the soft keyboard on the screen.
I would like also for someone to confirm too whether you can export annotations. I expect it is just like the NOOKcolor that you cannot get access to these files on the device without having rooted it. There are Nook PC & Mac ereader applications. Maybe someone can confirm if you can sync between the Nook STR and the desktop apps? Does it sync just last page read or also annotations? I have never been able to successfully sync my NC with the desktop apps or my iPhone app which is rather frustrating, and some others have reported similar problems. Even if you can sync notes between the Nook and the desktop app, there is not an option to export your annotations from the desktop app either. I believe that you can only export annotations using the Nook Study desktop app which is targeted to the e-textbook market.