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Originally Posted by trocchietto
come on 
coulored highlighting is freaky cool
i want a more efficient note management so that i can decide how many notes row i can read in notes activity and what kobo looks to miss is a find note research. i hacked up this on sony so that i tag notes and look for them with find, but is frustrating because on sony every time i click on an highlight i go to the page and cannot go back to thr highlight page again
this brings to..... highlighted color notes, i want to read on white paper but.... first i want/ need/ deserve to see my colored cover when i take the book( there is not one real reader that would not love this) and reading on my nice eink whitened by the luminosity but.... having the power to highlight with different colors  and RECALL the notes by color so that i can easily once i read a book recall the red notes that have first priority then eventually see the green notes that have another importance and then the green notes that are just key words and so on. can we do that? when? why not? give me my ideal reader please! |
Perhaps to you, coloured highlighting is freaky cool. I'm from a generation that marked up our textbooks with multicoloured highlighters. I never did mark up fiction books, nor did I read them with a dictionary and thesaurus at hand. As I said, my use for highlighting in ebooks is for errors -- spelling, grammatical, continuity, etc. -- so that I can fix them later. No need for more than one colour though I can overlap highlights and get multiple shades of gray.
As for needing coloured covers? Sorry but I very seldom look at the covers of dead tree books much less ebooks. For the most part covers make me feel vaguely ill at the best. Most of the cover illustrations were done by people with no idea of the contents of the book -- as a horrid example, the cover illustration for Wen Spencer's
Elfhome -- neither Impatience or Tinker look even vaguely like their descriptions in the books. I suspect Tinker would not be caught dead in the costume on the cover -- if for no other reason, she is wearing a couple of pounds of metal which might have "interesting effects" if she called on the Spell Stones. We'll leave out the rest of the costume to keep the moderators happy other than to say a t-shirt and cargo shorts would be more Tinker's style than a variant on a Princess Leia slave costume. As for Impatience, about 3.6 meters longs, blood red scales, wedge shaped head that seems too large for the body, shaggy mane, short legs, heavy claws. See
http://www.baenebooks.com/popup.aspx...451637830B.jpg for more of this $#%^&*).
If I really need to see a colour image of a cover, I can always dig out the Nexus 7 HD or the iPad Air or my laptop. Sadly, I find reading on an eInk screen to be much kinder to my eyes that a backlit LCD. Even an light emitting AMOLED display is not easy on my eyes.
Regards,
David