Sentences with phrase «public notes»

There is a new public notes feature that you can check out what other people think about certain aspects of books.

I will be adding the comment fictions as public notes in the Kindle version as well, just a bit later, but the UI there is a lot less readable IMO.

If you've declared bankruptcy or have other adverse items of public note on your record, such as a lien or lawsuit against you, this will also show up on your credit report.

I'll be adding the comment fictions as public notes on the Kindle as well, just a few days later.

But another, bigger part of the problem with Public Notes is that marginalia has always been primarily a private form of communication, like a diary: a place for readers to mark lines with a particular personal meaning or to jot notes to themselves.

This is how features such as Public Notes, X-Ray and WhisperSync for Voice have been implemented.

But as with all things social media, more connectivity was decided to equal more users relying on Public Notes for their social reading experience, a bigger - is - better approach.

Some of this isn't the users» fault: Amazon has chosen to limit each note to 100 characters, which the FAQ also doesn't advertise — I learned it only from the blog of an author who hopes to interact with his readers using Public Notes.

Kobo has launched Public Notes, which allows you to share them with the world.

In order to view Public Notes, according to Amazon's FAQ, you have to be using the latest Kindle model, running the most recent version of the software.

he same is true all the Kindle gimmicks this article sites, things like Public Notes and X-Ray.

I blogged in February about the Great News of Amazon adding a new feature to their eBooks called Public Notes in which readers could share highlights and notes with other readers.

This announcement was greeted with excitement by a few bloggers, who envisioned some interesting ways in which Public Notes could enhance the experience of reading: What if Rachel Maddow, say, were to annotate a book by Glenn Beck?

So one person of limited public note goes the other way and the trumpets sound and the bells ring out!

Literary group the Caxton Club held a symposium on marginalia the year that Kindle's public notes came out.

I downloaded a couple of the titles on Amazon's list of «Books with the Most Public Notes» — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Pride and Prejudice, both available for free in Kindle format — to my iPhone, where I normally read Kindle books.

Essentially, if two users are connected on Facebook, they are now connected on Public Notes unless they take steps to prevent it, without regard to their tastes in literature or their ability to string eight words together to make a coherent sentence, let alone to critique a book.

At this time Public Notes users have the option of not sharing their connections in their Twitter and Facebook accounts with Amazon, but users will need to correct the default setting of public sharing in order to keep their personal libraries hidden from the view of their contacts lists.

Rather than cause readers to establish yet another social media fan base, Public Notes incorporated its users other accounts, like it or not.

Amazon Public Notes look like they are taking a turn that only a detective can figure out.

As long as they have Public Notes enabled on their device, when they make a note you'll see the passage highlighted along with their name.

The Kobo Vox is an Android - based tablet with a custom marketplace of around 15,000 applications, and it also has Kobo's Pulse social reading platform, which allows readers to connect from within the book and do fun things like leave public notes and «like» pages.

Chris Walters at Booksprung recently wrote about how Amazon's public notes feature in e-books could offer all sorts of expanded value to e-books, giving the Kindle a decided advantage over competitors.

However, the connectivity move was apparently made without prior information to those users who were currently signed up with Public Notes.

I found it fascinating to see what Deaver considered noteworthy in the classic Fleming novel, through the use of Public Notes.

Elsewhere, Australian researcher Tully Barnett has shown how users of Kindle ereaders adapt features such as Highlights and Public Notes for social networking, demonstrating that even if ebooks are not that intrinsically innovative or creative, that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't be made so by imaginative users.

You can «follow» Kindle readers of interest who use Public Notes, and any other Kindle users can read what you've opted to share.

View public notes (formerly «contributions») from other Bible App users.

Additionally, the Kindle has a feature called public notes and highlights that displays the most frequently highlighted passages within ebooks, along with notes.

I am not going to get into every function of the Oasis, such as public notes, wordwise or vocabulary builder, but these options have their uses.

«I am crying as I write you this letter,» Charney told employees in a public note, vowing to continue fighting for immigration reform.

JULY 11, 2011: Twenty - something CTV Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata's public note of resignation, critiquing the limitations of television news to facilitate change, goes super viral, reprinted on The Tyee among other places.

Write and record private or public notes and gain immediate feedback on assessment data to gauge learner perception.

There is also a quick settings button that you can turn off the wireless internet access or turn on / off features such as Wordwise or Public Notes.

Public Notes and Highlights should be the one thing you should immediately disable.

Kindle did launch a public notes feature in 2011, which allows people to make their notes and highlights available to others, but some still worry digital marginalia won't be preserved as technology advances, leaving future historians without the kind of marginalia penned by people like Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Austen, and other historical figures.

First of all, Amazon registers people as having made Public Notes for a book when they have simply turned on the Public Notes feature.

Unfortunately, this is the equivalent of most of what I found perusing Amazon's Public Notes.

Public Notes: Another feature clearly aimed at plugging Kindle users into a network, this gives you the option of sharing any notes or highlights you made in your e-book with the Kindle community.

Last week, Amazon announced the creation of a platform for «Public Notes,» which can be entered on the Kindle and then published for others to see.

Maybe some literary scholar will eventually comb through the Public Notes on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for insight into why twenty - first - century readers worldwide gobbled up a crazed saga of violence against women.

(Try it here for Pride and Prejudice: At the right of the screen, where it says «x customers have Public Notes,» click on the x number.)

You can also check out public notes that people have read, that allow you to talk with fellow users.

Once users linked their Twitter or Facebook accounts to their Public Notes accounts, their entire following or friend lists automatically became connected to their Public Notes friends.

Admittedly, before Amazon forced the link between Facebook, Twitter, and Public Notes, it was difficult to weed through the plethora of Public Notes users to find likeminded readers with whom to connect.

They're also adding a new «Public Notes» feature that lets you make your annotations public, allowing anyone to read your extensive notes on The Lost Symbol.

You can see my public Notes here.