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Originally Posted by Joe563
You cannot search within any kind of document with the Kobo Touch. The lack of an internal search function is also true for their Desktop application and their app for Android. In all cases, you can only search for items within the library or the store.
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Wow, I'm flabbergasted. The search feature is so fundamental.
I bought a Kobo book for my Sony Reader. The book is a nonfiction about the Economic Crisis of 2008, and does not have a workable index (no hyperlinks, no page number next to subjects). So if I want to find mentions of a subject, say, "credit default swap," I can search for that word and go to pages containing that word.
Without the search feature, you have to scan pages and pages for that subject. It's barely doable on a physical book, but next to impossible on a ereader. That's why nonfiction books have index, so you don't have to scan the book, but Kobo is forcing you to do that? That's insane.
I hope the search feature is high on the list of firmware request. I can see a lot of people not buying Kobo because of lack of search. Kobo would be a candidate to replace the Sony Reader if it dies, but now Kobo's a non-starter for me. I hope they would have the search feature soon.