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Originally Posted by kguil
It is very cumbersome, and certainly not optimal, but you can circumvent it using the "+word" option.
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This is great, many thanks!
It turns out that your "experimental feature" (the
+Word button) accomplishes more than Apple's long-established "home-grown" feature (moving the text selection markers manually).
Using the
+Word button is still a workaround rather than the solution, but it will in many cases be a better workaround than the one described earlier. It might get similarly (or even more) cumbersome, though, if the passage spanning paragraphs that you wish to highlight, is very long -- such as containing several long sentences. Imagine having to click through each and every word in them...
I hope there can one day be a true solution to this even within UIWebvew.
As you say, Kris, highlighting works properly in the Kindle app (and on the hardware Kindles, too), so it would seem that the
display of dictionary definitions and
text selection capabilities are two areas where Amazon is distinctly ahead of Apple in the e-books world.