Kindle Android app borrows a useful new feature from Alexa Tablets

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority

TL;DR Amazon has rolled out handwritten notes to the Kindle Android app.

The feature allows readers to mark up their ebooks with handwritten notes.

Support appears to be exclusive to Android tablets and phones, for now.

While it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, some people love to write in the books they read. From tracking details in a story to marking favorite quotes, annotations can be a fun and useful way to interact with a book. Amazon added the option to annotate Kindle ebooks on its recently launched Alexa Tablets. Now the company has further expanded the feature.

Kindle ebook readers (via The Verge) are being greeted by a new pop-up in the Android app. The pop-up is informing users that they can now write directly in their ebooks. …