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Originally Posted by davidfor
It's more bizarre than that. It's the last word of the paragraph if it continues from the previous screen. And if the paragraph finishes with two punctuation characters, the word can be selected, but not that last character. And yes, not a big problem, but one I can't "unsee" once I discovered it.
And something I just noticed, if I start a selection earlier in the paragraph to include that last word, the highlight disappears when I lift my finger, but the menu pops up. I can save the highlight and see it in the annotations list, but it isn't highlighted in the text. If I change the font size so that the paragraph doesn't go over the screen, the highlight appears.
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I completely confirm all the behaviours. I highlight a lot since I use Kobo with sideloaded programming epubs. I need to highlight them for studying, so for me it's a big problem.
I add that highlighting is very much *slow*. In comparison, my non-touch Kindle takes few milliseconds to select and highlight text.
IMHO it's the logic that is completely flawed. It's much more simple to have an highlight button, touch the text once for the start and touch the text again for the end. The fact you have to slide your finger from the start to the end slows down a lot, because of the animation.
Not mentioning when you do a mistake and you want to select more or less text. In this case Kobo does not select entire words, but character by character. Fast as Windows Vista installed on a toaster.