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henriquemaia, the newest firmware -- 3.2.0 -- apparently DOES allow highlighting passages across multiple pages. I'm travelling, and haven't installed the new firmware yet, but that's reportedly a feature of it.
That said, I have to say mark-up/annotation is still an area in which Kobo needs work. Kindle does a better job, and makes it way easier to save/export your annotations, and use them with other services, such as Evernote. This is the one area in which I think Kindle is superior to Kobo; I do a lot of research reading, and find Kobo's highlighting feature really sub-par.
Now, Kobo could fix it without too much work. Rather than (or in addition to) letting me post highlighted text to Facebook (which Kobo seems to think is a great feature), they should let us post highlighted text to our Evernote accounts; that would help a lot.
Still, Kindle's "Popular Highlights" feature is an amazing tool, and Kobo has nothing like it. Turn it on on your Kindle, and your book is automatically marked up with the passages most frequently highlighted by other users (and a little number indicating exactly how many other users have highlighted this passage); great for doing a quick run through a research work to find the nuggets buried within.
I do tons of nonfiction research reading (as fodder for the science-fiction novels I write), and my current system -- which is easier than it sounds -- is this: on my Kobo, I highlight as normal, but I have used the hack that turns on screen captures when you press the power button. The current screen (including the highlighting) is saved as a PNG graphic in the Kobo's root directory. I then batch convert those PNGs to graphic PDFs, stack them into a single document per book, and upload those to Evernote. Evernote does OCR on the graphics (quite reliably, and it has no trouble OCRing the highlighted passages), and then I can search my highlights in Evernote, and even see an exact image of the whole page containing the original highlight.
But that's a complex workaround to get somewhere close to the sort of functionality Kindle offers out-of-the-box in terms of making, exporting, and using highlights.
Rob
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