Amazon has some new help pages up that provide some information about the annotation capabilities of the Kindle Scribe.
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Fix Issues with Personal Documents for Kindle it states:
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Are you unable to insert sticky notes, create on-page markups in your documents in the Kindle library, or are you receiving conversion fail errors?
- Try sending the document again through Send to Kindle to make sure it has the latest features enabled for Kindle Scribe and Send to Kindle.
- Delete ink drawings from your .doc or .docx document. Ink drawings will cause the document conversion to fail.
- Turn off "Track changes" for your document in the Word app before sending it to your Kindle library.
- Word comments are converted into Kindle footnotes with a gray background by design.
Note: Some documents may convert differently if they contain elements that are currently unsupported causing writing or sticky note insert not to work on Kindle Scribe.
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From that it seems clear that Word documents will continue to be converted to Amazon formats rather than being annotated in their native form.
I am curious why certain unsupported elements will block the ability to create sticky notes.
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Kindle Personal Document File Types That Support Notes it states:
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Note: Kindle Scribe doesn't support handwriting features in EPUB comics, Manga, and children’s books at this time.
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So those fixed-layout graphical formats cannot be annotated.
That page also has a table laying out the annotation capabilities supported by Kindle apps and devices across file formats. According to that chart the only place where on-page markup is supported is using a Scribe with PDF (original layout). Scribe Handwritten sticky notes are listed as supported in the same formats that text annotations and highlights are currently allowed on other Kindles.