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Originally Posted by robko
Actually it does now after firmware upgrade. It also allows you to type in a word you want to look up and use it that way.
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KOBO mgmt is swift! Thanks for that, robko. Great to know. One of my favorite features with the Kindle all this time has been that you can just start typing while reading a page, and that starts a search of the entire book for the word or phrase. [This starts a search of the entire device if done from the Home screen.]
That Kobo does this easily-started search within a book also is, for me, huge. I once saw a talk by a Kobo rep, at the
Books in Browsers conference in my home town (San Francisco] about a study they made of types of device owners who download a few free books, or many free books, or nothing but free books, and it was very funny but also interesting.
The title of it was "Michael Tamblyn (@mtamblyn), Kobo Books – Life Among the Freegans: The Co-Existence of Free Books, Paid Books, and the People Who Read Them" Here are two
photos of him giving the talk, which was partly serious of course and part tongue-in-cheek.
The whole idea of that get-together was to look at the future of reading books in our browsers (including interactivity), and with HTML5, this looks to be coming quicker than some had thought -- and will help to make the reading audience more independent of those who host vendor reading apps, with the restrictions that come with the latter.
Kobo just did a hilarious thing with Apple, who would not allow them to tell their audience in their reading app for iPad, that Apple was not allowing them to make a button to take people to Safari and then to their website.
See
Nate's story on this.
Those stealth links by Kobo have since been removed but
Teleread said, on the 6th, that "If there’s any good news to this, it’s that the post still lays the blame for the store removal squarely on Apple. At least as of today."
Anyway, obviously, the Kobo guys are fast on the ground (even though they started the Kobo with very few features initially), not your usual mgmt types -- and another thiing I like is that they have come out with all kinds of translation capabilities. I also like the form factor of the new Kobo. And for people outside the U.S., especially, Kobo is coming on strong. We can see why.