Highlights, notes and quotes

Highlight passages in four colors, add notes, share quotes as images and gather all your highlights in one place.

Highlight some text

Long-press a word. Drag the handles to cover the sentence or paragraph.
When you let go, Kevra's bar appears (on Android, at the very bottom of the screen; on iPhone, next to the selection).
Tap one of the four colors (yellow, green, blue or pink) or the underline without color icon.

Note: on an e-ink ereader all colors look the same: use the plain underline to tell them apart.

Besides the colors, the bar has:

Add note: highlight and write your comment.
Define: if you've downloaded a dictionary. See Dictionaries.
Search in book: where else that text appears.
Image: turns the quote into an image to share.
Share quote: posts it on your Kevra profile.
Who is “…”?: only if the selection is a character or place with a reading companion card.

Copying and sharing the plain text is done by your phone's own menu, which appears at the same time.

Change or remove a highlight

Tap the highlight: you can Add note (or Edit note) or Delete.
Or select that text again: the bar shows Remove highlight. If you pick another color, it changes the existing one.

Notes and bookmarks without highlighting

Open the reader menu and tap Notes:

Bookmark here adds a bookmark on the current page.
Add note writes a note at that point without highlighting anything.
Export highlights exports this book's highlights.

Below is the list of bookmarks and notes: tap one to go there, or the bin to delete it.

The quote image

With Image you see the card at full size before you send it. Choose one of three backgrounds and whether it goes With the cover. The Kevra logo goes at the bottom. Tap Share to send it through any app.

Your highlights, from all your books

Settings → Your highlights has everything you've highlighted in any book:

Search highlights and notes, and filter by color, book or Tag.
Tap one to Open in the book (if the book is on that device), write a Note, add Tags (comma separated: idea, quote, review), Copy or Share.
Export what you've filtered: Markdown (Obsidian, Notion), CSV (spreadsheet) or HTML (to read or print). There's also Send to Obsidian, which creates one note per book.
Readwise: paste your access token (you'll find it at readwise.io/access_token) and every highlight is sent to Readwise automatically, with its note and tags. Deleting a highlight in Kevra doesn't delete it in Readwise.

Your highlights, notes and bookmarks are saved to your account and show up on all your devices.

Common questions

Can I highlight in a PDF or a comic? No: highlights and notes are for books with text (EPUB and FB2).

Long-pressing doesn't select anything. While read-aloud is playing, long-press is turned off. Stop the voice and try again.