When eidtor in read only mode you can only add comments in notesEditor

app/components/SimpleEditor/elements/isolatedNote/IsolatedNoteComponent.js

@@ -9,13 +9,15 @@ class IsolatedNoteComponent extends IsolatedNodeComponent {
     // is there a better way than rendering a text property editor???
     // review ref name
     // do we need a ref ??
+    const editing = (this.context.editor.props.disabled) ? 'selection' : 'full'
+
     let el = $$('div')
       .addClass('sc-entity')
       .attr('data-id', this.props.node.id)
       .append(
         $$(TextPropertyEditor, {
-          disabled: this.context.editor.props.disabled,
           multiLine: false,
+          editing: editing,
           path: [this.props.node.id, 'content'],
           tagName: 'p'
         }

app/components/SimpleEditor/notesEditor/NotesEditor.js

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class NotesEditor extends ProseEditor {
 
   _renderEditor ($$) {
     const hasIsolatedNotes = this.getIsolatedNodes()
-    const disabled = (isEmpty(hasIsolatedNotes)) ? true : this.props.disabled
+    const disabled = (isEmpty(hasIsolatedNotes))
 
     return $$(ContainerEditor, {
       book: this.props.book,