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Amazon adds handwritten ebook notes to the Kindle Android app.

The Verge •
October 23, 2026 • 03:35 PM
• By Andrew Liszewski
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After adding the option to annotate Kindle ebooks with handwritten notes on its new Alexa Tablets, Amazon has brought the same functionality to the Kindle Android app, as some users in the Kindle subreddit have discovered. It currently appears limited to Android tablets and phones that support a stylus, and it hasn’t come to the iPadOS version of the app yet. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/fctia1tz1owh1.png?quality=90&strip=all]

Amazon adds handwritten ebook notes to the Kindle Android app.

After adding the option to annotate Kindle ebooks with handwritten notes on its new Alexa Tablets , Amazon has brought the same functionality to the Kindle Android app , as some users in the Kindle subreddit have discovered. It currently appears limited to Android tablets and phones that support a stylus, and it hasn’t come to the iPadOS version of the app yet.

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