I like to mark/highlight words while reading, and search for them later. Can any eInk reader device (in particular my shortlisted candidates Iliad and Cybook) do the same?
In Mobipocket Reader v6.2 on my XP laptop, I can do it with a right click, but it seems this feature disappears in the mobi reader on the Iliad or Gen3 , and it's not available in other formats either. Can lookup in a dictionary, can underline or circle, but cannot get a list of highlighted words to be used later.
Of course on the Iliad you could develop the
app you want (great job daudi!), but I am wondering if such a basic highlighting feature is available by default on any device.
The reason for the highlight search is a - little language game -
I usually read books in English, Italian, Spanish, sometimes Dutch. When I find a word I don't know, I mark it e.g. while I am on the bus, look up the meaning later at home, and build a mini dictionary (foreign word, meaning, example = book page/excerpt). Later I go through the list and try to remember the meaning for the word, or the word for the meaning. You could play this with a normal dictionary too, here in addition the examples are linked to books I've read, so that I know the context, and I can better place the word and its meaning. So far I have done this on pen and paper, I would have hoped for a digital solution too. Once I have the file in some format with highlight information in it, a little script could build the dictionary.