Super way to create running notes on any ebook using Kindle
Advantages:
a) Use any spare time anywhere to read and create my own notes on any kindle ebook.
b) Well worth the price of a kindle ebook.
c) Many times it's difficult to remember detailed stuff that you read quite some time back.
c) Many times it's difficult to remember detailed stuff that you read quite some time back.
d) With this method you end up spending at most 2 times effort but you can keep building on it incrementally.
e) However, since it's mostly automated it reduces typing effort.
f) The draft and final notes are best kept in a wiki.
e) However, since it's mostly automated it reduces typing effort.
f) The draft and final notes are best kept in a wiki.
g) Periodically update onto blog.
Note: I've written to the author of bookcision bookmarklet to add copy of user notes in addition to highlighted text. He just replied back that the feature is being added in next version of the tool. Till then it's possible to extract "Notes" by copy-pasting from kindle web-page.
Buying eBooks on Amazon.com:
Note: As of 13-Feb-2013
a) You will be Re-directed from India amazon..in to US site amazon.com for buying kindle ebooks.
b) You need to use international credit-card to buy the same.
c) You can pay in Rupees for the same.
d) You may need to change the country of residence.
e) Of course you can always get "sample ebooks" or "free ebooks" on your Smartphone/PC/CloudReader.
f) Just click Deliver to each of the specific devices.
Howto Annotate your Kindle ebook for running Notes:
a) Install Kindle-for-PC, Kindle-Android-App, Kindle-Cloud-Reader (best for quickly editing notes).
b) Add bookcision bookmarklet to firefox/chrome browser : http://www.norbauer.com/
c) Highlight the Chapter/Topic in addition to text which you want to annotate.
You can also add a note-to-self to the highlighted text.
d) Highlights get stored on your kindle account : https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights
e) Click bookcision bookmarklet to copy highlights to clipboard. This will copy only highlighted text
f) To copy notes part of your highlights page "View Source(Ctrl-U)" and manually copy contents 'noteContent' tag to your wiki.
g) Copy the notes to your Tiddlywiki and edit for formatting.
Sample:
http://learning-notes.Install:
a) Kindle Cloud Reader : https://read.amazon.com
b) Kindle App for Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.kindle
c) Kindle For PC : http://download.cnet.com/Kindle-for-PC/3000-20412_4-75185974.html
See Also:
a) Howto Install Kindle for PC : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/9192/read-kindle-books-on-your-computer-with-kindle-for-pc
