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Electronic textbooks are offering functional advantages over classic paper textbooks. They provide various features like bookmark, annotation, and interactive contents. However, the growth of electronic textbooks has been slow. One of the main reasons is that usability of digital textbooks was often not evaluated carefully. For example, most students frequently highlight text and insert notes in the digital textbooks. Thus, annotating usability should be examined and designed for the reading system in education. The proposing interface was designed to support the students’ annotating behavior and learner-centered education. The interface design was based on a requirement specification defined by expert consultation, data analysis and mental model. Therefore, we implement note-taking interface for digital textbooks according to the requirement. In this, paper, we present then the evaluation indicating that usability of our proposing interface in touch-based mobile devices satisfies users and reflect their needs.