How to Manage the Ability to Display Public Notes on a Kindle 2

Do you have notes and highlights that you'd like the entire public Kindle users to be able to access? Turn on/manage the Public Notes feature on your Kindle to show the world what (in addition to highlights) what notes you've taken from your books' passages. This article will guide you through this method.

Steps

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    This will bring up a drop-down box in the upper right-corner of the device.
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    You'll arrive at a page that more-likely says that you're signed in.
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    Press the down arrow key on the 5-way controller once, until the cursor is sitting over top of the "turn off" button to the right of the line labelled "Public Notes".
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      References

      1. http://www.kindlepost.com/2011/02/early-preview-of-free-software-update-for-kindle-.html

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