Add bookmarks, notes & highlights in an ebook

To fit your screen when you change page features like font size or line spacing, most books on Google Play Books use Flowing text mode. You can take notes, add bookmarks, translate, define, and search for words.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Play Books app .
2. Open a book.
   • To add a bookmark, tap the top right of the page.
     • To remove a bookmark, tap the top right again.
   • To highlight text, touch and hold the word. To select more than one word, use the blue sliders select a highlight color.
     • To remove a highlight, tap the highlighted text Remove .
3. To add a note, touch and hold the word. To select more than one word, use the blue sliders Tap Add note .
   • To edit a note, tap the highlighted text where you added the note.
   • To delete a note, tap the highlighted text, then tap Delete .
   • To find all your notes, tap Notes .

Tip: You can't add notes on a sample book.

Translate, define, or search for a word

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Play Books app .
2. Open a book.
3. Touch and hold to select the text. To select more than one word, use the blue sliders.
4. Tap an option:
   • To find a definition, highlight a word. Only one word can be selected.
   • To translate, tap Translate . Select languages to translate to and from.
   • To search for the selection in the book or on the web, tap Search .

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Play Books app .
2. At the top right, tap your profile picture.
3. Tap Play Books Settings Save your notes, highlights, and bookmarks.
4. Name the folder where you want to save your notes. By default, the folder is named "Play Books Notes."
5. Turn on Save notes, highlights, and bookmarks.
6. Tap Done.

If you added notes before you turned on syncing, you’ll need to:

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Play Books app .
2. Open the book you want to sync.
3. Add a new note, highlight, or bookmark. This creates a new document with all the notes from that book.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open Google Drive .
2. Make sure you’re signed in to the same account you use for Google Play Books.
3. Open the folder you created to store your notes. By default, the folder is named “Play Books Notes”.

There are two reasons that highlighted text doesn't appear:

• If no highlights appear: The publisher of this book didn't enable the copy-paste feature.
• If some highlights appear: The number of highlights you made exceeds the copy-paste maximum that the publisher set for this book.

To check the text you highlighted, select the page number in the notes document.

If you edit a notes document in Drive and then add notes to the same book, your changes in the Drive document will be deleted. To edit and save to a synced document, make a copy of the document first.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the notes document.
2. Click File Make a copy.
3. Name your new document.
4. Make edits to the new document.