Using and Sharing Bookshelf® Notes and Highlights
Bookshelf provides premier study tools in an effort to give users the best reading experience possible. Notes and highlights are often used as a best practice when reading and reviewing, so we have created intuitive tools allowing for collaboration. Learning is a social experience, and often, so is studying.
Add a Highlight
Select text within one of your titles. A menu will appear showing your highlighters with sharing icons on your public highlighters. Pick your desired highlighter by clicking on the colour bubble of choice. Your highlight will then appear.
Delete a Highlight
Click on the highlighted passage and click the x on the displayed menu.
Create and edit highlighters
You can access your highlighters in two places:
- In the Workbook
in Reader Preferences
.
There are several default highlighters available. To create custom highlighters:
- Access your existing highlighters by clicking the Workbook icon.
- Click the plus
icon.
- On the Highlighters menu, click choose whether your highlighter is public or private. When selected as public, anyone who is following you will be able to see highlights created with that marker. Use this feature to start creating a collaborative study guide!
- A new colour will default-populate with the colour name. To pick your own name, type in the preferred name in the text box and click Save.
To delete a highlighter, open the Highlighters menu, select the highlighter and click Delete. You will be asked to confirm that you wish to delete the highlighter. All highlights and notes associated with this highlighter will be permanently deleted and cannot be retrieved.
Add a Note
Select text within one of your titles and click Add Note in the menu that appears. Your note will appear within the margin next to the text that it's referencing. To save the note, click the tick or click away from the box.
To edit your note, navigate back to it and click on the box.
To access all of your notes, click the Workbook icon. All of your highlights with notes will appear in the Annotations tab.
Public Highlighter Sharing Options
You can manage highlighter sharing options in:
- The Reader Preferences menu.
From within the Reader Preferences menu, click Sharing.
To share your public highlights with others, click Copy share link, then send it to others via email or message.
To follow someone else's highlights, click Enter email, enter the recipient's email and click Follow. Should you wish to stop following someone, you can click the X next to their name in the I'm Following section.