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- The Android Kindle app now supports handwriting
- This means you can use a stylus to annotate books
- A support page says that similar functionality may come to Apple devices soon
One of the great benefits of Kindle Scribe is being able to add handwritten annotations to your books, but it’s a benefit that’s no longer exclusive to Amazon hardware, as the Kindle app for Android now also supports handwritten notes.
With this update, you can now use a stylus to write directly on your Kindle books, choosing from a variety of pen styles, colors, and sizes. You can also use this feature to highlight, circle and underline text.
This could be especially useful for studying, but if you enjoy annotating fiction books, there’s a helpful update there as well. It’s not limited to large-screen devices either, with users on Reddit claiming that several standard phones, such as the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, have also gained access to this feature – although it appears to only work on devices that have native stylus support.
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However, as confirmed by some users, this also means that you can access this update on some Android-powered ereaders such as some Boox models.
It’s a feature that has been largely received positively, with comments on Reddit including “nice surprise,” “I was so happy to see this,” “this is awesome,” and “this is such a game changer.”
Currently, this feature is only available on the Android app, but an Amazon support page mentions that Active Canvas (the feature that allows you to write directly on a Kindle book) is also available on supported iOS devices – so maybe the iPad and iPhone Duo app will get this update soon.
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