Paste Highlights

When you already have your highlights written down — in a note, a document, or somewhere you copied them — you can paste them all into Becoming at once for a single book. You’ll see a preview before anything is saved.

This is handy when a book has no digital highlights to import, or to add passages to a book you added with Book Search.

Paste your highlights

1. In the web app, go to your Library.
2. Click Add source and choose Manual highlight import.
3. Pick the book these highlights belong to — Existing source searches your library, and Create source lets you type a title and author yourself.
4. Paste your highlights, or upload a text file. Bullets and blank lines are the most reliable separators between highlights.
5. Review the preview to check each highlight came through cleanly, then save.

What gets imported

• Each pasted passage as a separate highlight on the chosen book.
• Nothing else — the title and author come from the source you picked or created.

Highlights are deduplicated by content, so pasting the same passage again never creates duplicates.

Tip

Cleaner input means a cleaner preview. Remove page numbers or stray labels from each line before pasting if you can.

See also

• Book Search — add the book first, then paste its highlights.
• Import overview — all the ways to bring highlights in.
• Import failures — if the preview looks wrong.