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Old 10-09-2012, 03:02 PM   #15
SmittyBit
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Device: Kobo Glo
While the text selection in theory works quite similar to other readers, it's in practice,-- the execution, that fails. Bag example maybe, but both a Ferrari and a Pinto both work the same in concept, but the execution is quite different, and not in a flattering way for the Pinto.

So reading all these posts, it's pretty obvious that this is a long-standing issue, which really makes me wonder how it could have been ignored by the Kobo designers..

I wont be returning my Kobo Glo due to this, as it's core purpose - reading books - it still does quite well, and I love the front-light, it works fantastic.

Asside from that however, Unless Kobo is willing to fix this very glaring problem -- I'd go so far as to call the feature broken, I definitely would not buy the next Kobo, as by then Front-lights will be old hat. Great unit, but disappointing support (realizing I'm new to Kobo, a broken feature being left as-is for so long as it would appear is even worse than Sony's support - at least all their feature work well before they abandon the unit)

Response from Kobo maybe? I've heard they patrol these forums once in a while.


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Originally Posted by Neolistic View Post
Confirmed, this does work really well if you avoid the handles. Thanks for that!
This works without waiting for, then clearing the dictionary, but is still fiddly. The handles should work more like this to be effective it seems:
Check around 5:40
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