The dock and modes: Listen, Markup, Notes
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Listen and Markup can stay on together: tapping Markup doesn't stop reading; you stop it yourself from the playback row if you want.
Read (on opening): only the mode capsule is on the dock; you move freely between pages. No tool is active: tapping or dragging leaves no mark. Tap a sentence and reading starts from there (or asks for confirmation, depending on the setting), and Listen mode turns on by itself. Press and hold a word to select; choose markup, a note, copying or Ai from the selection menu.
Listen: a playback row is added to the dock; the sentence and word being read are highlighted on the page and the view follows the reading. Tap the wave button to open the full player. Tap "Listen" again to stop listening and close the row. In a file opened outside the library, "Listen" reads directly too; no need to add it to the library.
Markup: a single toolbar at the bottom: Select, Highlight ▾ (Highlighter, Underline, Strikethrough, Note, Snapshot), Pen, Eraser, Colour • (the selected tool's colour; thickness for the pen), Undo, Redo, Save ▾ (Save as PDF…, Share annotated PDF). When Markup opens, the Select tool is chosen: running your finger over the text only selects it and opens the selection menu; no mark is made by itself. Tap Highlight and the last marking tool you used is chosen, and from then on the text you drag over is marked directly; a second tap opens its card. Pen and Eraser are always visible. The toolbar sits above the dock; if you are listening, the playback row stays below and you mark up and take notes while reading continues. Tap Markup again to close the toolbar; tapping Listen or Notes also closes it and switches straight to that mode. In text, Markdown and code files this mode is called Edit and opens the text editor. It doesn't appear in documents that can't be marked up.
Notes: opens the Notes panel (Notes, Snapshots, Bookmarks, Contents, Pages, Skipped). Files opened outside the library don't have this mode.
All tools are free; the pen, eraser and snapshots don't need Pro.