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robinson · 02-14-2011, 06:15 PM

One other feature that is looming as a big one for me...

Easily flagging words or quotes and saving them for later review (or emailing them to myself). Ideally, the flagged items would be backed up or could be exported to a text file. Do any ebook reader apps have this?

I often find great quotes that I'd like to mark and look at later...

Kindle has something like this, where annotations can be backed up, but they end up having to be made PUBLIC, where everyone can see them.

I just read Little Women (OK, so I have eclectic taste that runs from Wodehouse to Bova to old school stories and juveniles), and have gobs of notes/highlights in B & N's eReader, but I do not see a way of exporting them! (The ebook I read was wonderfully footnoted; LMA drew on a rich source of classic and popular references, some of which I'd like to read; plus, there's some captivating older words.)

Stanza has a great share button for e-mailing an item individually, but again nothing en masse.

I read some sample chapters of a Bova classic (Voyager 1) in the Kindle app and started, sort of, to get used to full justified text, although rivers of black and gaps between words were a bit distracting. I even got, sort of, used to the page turning, by slowly sliding a page across (to avoid the animated slide) (Were they trying to recreate the distracting page turning flash of the real Kindle? :-) )

Problem now, of course, is that I want to keep reading. Yeah, they hooked me alright! (4 sample chapters... that was a bit unfair :-), but smart of them.)

I'm still wondering, though, how to get those Bova ebooks into Stanza! Or, how to buy a Bova ebook via Stanza. Any thoughts?

02-14-2011, 06:15 PM	#18
robinson Zealot Posts: 142 Karma: 997293 Join Date: Jan 2003	One other feature that is looming as a big one for me... Easily flagging words or quotes and saving them for later review (or emailing them to myself). Ideally, the flagged items would be backed up or could be exported to a text file. Do any ebook reader apps have this? I often find great quotes that I'd like to mark and look at later... Kindle has something like this, where annotations can be backed up, but they end up having to be made PUBLIC, where everyone can see them. I just read Little Women (OK, so I have eclectic taste that runs from Wodehouse to Bova to old school stories and juveniles), and have gobs of notes/highlights in B & N's eReader, but I do not see a way of exporting them! (The ebook I read was wonderfully footnoted; LMA drew on a rich source of classic and popular references, some of which I'd like to read; plus, there's some captivating older words.) Stanza has a great share button for e-mailing an item individually, but again nothing en masse. I read some sample chapters of a Bova classic (Voyager 1) in the Kindle app and started, sort of, to get used to full justified text, although rivers of black and gaps between words were a bit distracting. I even got, sort of, used to the page turning, by slowly sliding a page across (to avoid the animated slide) (Were they trying to recreate the distracting page turning flash of the real Kindle? :-) ) Problem now, of course, is that I want to keep reading. Yeah, they hooked me alright! (4 sample chapters... that was a bit unfair :-), but smart of them.) I'm still wondering, though, how to get those Bova ebooks into Stanza! Or, how to buy a Bova ebook via Stanza. Any thoughts?