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eBook Basics: Note-Taking & More

Taking Notes / Annotating on Ebook Central & EBSCOHost

Both of these e-book sites provide note-taking and/or highlighting options after you sign in to your personal account.

Ebook Central

  • Sign-in to Ebook Central and use tools in the top menu or use your mouse to highlight and create notes. 
  • Your annotations will be saved in your Bookshelf.

Highlighting and annotating

EBSCOHost E-Books

  • Use the Tools menu on the right-hand side.  
  • Click the “Notes” icon on the Tools menu found on the far right. To save notes, sign in to your personal EBSCOHost account. 
  • Once you've started to collect notes (clicking "New Note" for each addition), you'll see the listing of notes displayed at the top of your screen:
  • In later sessions, these notes will be available to you by clicking the Folder icon. From there, they can be printed, emailed or saved as a file.

Note-taking

Annotating PDF's

Some software options.

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