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Ebook annotation apps

Highlight passages and add notes inside ebooks. Check whether highlights and notes can be searched or exported and whether they stay in place when you change the font size.

Booklip — eBook Reader

A file-based ebook reader for EPUB, PDF, TXT, and Markdown with text-to-speech, reading themes, highlights, and cloud imports.

EPUB Reader: eBook & FB2

EPUB Reader opens DRM-free ebooks in a local library, with offline reading, search, bookmarks, highlights, and notes.

Athene Reader

A free personal library for reading EPUB and PDF books, importing other formats, annotating, listening, and syncing notes.

Bookshop.org: Ebook Reader

Browse and purchase ebooks, read them in a customizable reader, save highlights and notes, and organize titles into shelves and wishlists.

iRead: Read Aloud EPUB Reader

An offline read-aloud app for personal EPUB, PDF, and text files with natural neural voices and synchronized highlighting.

Lelo Reader: Text to Speech

An offline reader and text-to-speech app for PDFs, EPUBs, articles, and notes, with on-device neural voices, highlights, and audio downloads.

Try annotating a book from the same source you normally read. File formats and store restrictions can affect which notes are portable.

How to choose

  • Highlight a passage, change text size, and export the notes to see whether the quote and location are preserved.

Frequently asked questions

Can I search my notes across books?

Look for library-wide annotation search and check whether it indexes the highlighted text as well as your comments.