Sony PRS-T2 Reader versus Amazon device?

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by EbookNovice

Alright, thanks a lot.

Regarding the Kindle Cloud solution, do you know if it's possible to make it so that you can't edit quotes you've taken from a book? One thing I was really worried by was how it was so easy to accidentally edit quotes in Evernote. However, I found a way to make the quotes uneditable in Evernote using a 'shared read-only' account. Is this possible in the Kindle cloud solution?

Thank you!

You can't change the text of the highlights easily. You would have to remove the highlight and then redo it. You can see for yourself in the screen captures the text in blue next to the highlights that you would click on to delete them and the text in blue next to the notes that you would click on to edit them.

[vxf]

One note on caution about the Amazon system is that it tends to work much better with the books purchased on Amazon than with those that are side-loaded. For those, highlights and annotations are sync'd, backed up and accessible both with the website and in a text document sitting on your device.

But things are not as smooth for side-loaded content.

For example, if you 'drag and drop' a book onto your kindle, it will not sync annotations.
But you can email books to yourself, thus adding the documents to Amazon's cloud. The documents you add like that will be sync'd across devices - and highlights and annotations will be seamlessly backed up. But, for some truly annoying reason, those annotations will not appear on Amazon.kindle.com. Which frustrates the heck out of me.

Unless I am doing something wrong. I have been busy lately and have stopped worrying about this (after struggling myself with SONY's system first for a while - but that was before Evernote).

[susan_cassidy]

I don't believe that personal documents are backed up to kindle.amazon.com at all. They do go into the "My Clippings.txt" file, though, which you can copy to your pc and do whatever you want with.

You can edit a note on the Kindle (not a highlight), but it is not something that you can do by accident, you have to manually go to the specific note, and edit it.

[vxf]

Originally Posted by susan_cassidy

I don't believe that personal documents are backed up to kindle.amazon.com at all. They do go into the "My Clippings.txt" file, though, which you can copy to your pc and do whatever you want with.

You can edit a note on the Kindle (not a highlight), but it is not something that you can do by accident, you have to manually go to the specific note, and edit it.

Personal documents are not displayed on kindle.amazon.com.

But you can delete a document from your device, the re-download it. And the notes will still be there. So I guess they must be backed up somewhere in the Amazon cloud.

But that doesn't change the main problem - those notes can only be exported through "My Clippings". Which is clunky.