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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Good to have your company, Marst. After a lifetime in print publishing and as a dedicated paper book reader, I likewise soon swallowed any remorse or sense of 'treason' I may have felt at embracing ebooks. Good on ya. Sorry I can't help with your question above (I'm a Sony man), but I'm sure you'll get advice from one of our many Kindleers soon. Happy Kindling and very best wishes. Neil
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Thanks.
I
itch to help publishers fix their problems with EM dashes in these e-books!
Argh!
I'm certainly not abandoning books in print entirely. For one thing, there are a lot of them that haven't made it to e-book format or that might be mighty overpriced for that format. (
What? Not one e-book version of work by Solzhenitsyn -- at least for the K3?
Grumble -- but I'm a firm believer in copyrights and won't download "bootleg" copies of anything.)
I suppose it's possible that books of remarkable photographs, such as those by Steve McCurry, might look ok on the screen of, say, an iPad. But egad, at what cost? Better to benefit from the fruits of someone's meticulous book-preparation labors in that case! And for all I know, even the priciest e-reader technology still can't yet accurately represent the carefully prepared typography of a well designed book.
Perhaps a moderator will ask me to move this next part of the post to some other forum within this site, but I'm still not sure which one. So: here's the interesting trick I ran across on the K3, entirely by accident. There's no "copy/paste" functionality that I know of, but what if you want to search for a word without having to retype it?
Press the "five-way" and move the cursor to highlight the word -- but don't
complete the highlighting by pressing the "five-way" again. That is: the word is still white-on-black and not yet underlined.
Press the space bar. For some reason, this causes the highlighted word -- and not a space -- to appear within the search box. Now you can use the usual-and-accustomed controls to highlight "Find" and off you go. Cuts down on the button-pushing. Doesn't seem to work with phrases -- only with individual words -- but I'm grateful to have the button-pushing reduced a bit.