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Originally Posted by davidfor
It's been a while since I had a straight HTML file on one of my devices. But, I just tested one. Unless there is something unusual in the file I tested, I couldn't select any text, so it is not just this. My guess would be that it is a design decision on Kobo's part as they probably see Pocket articles as only temporarily on the device.
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Hmm, I guess you may be right... I remember reading that somewhere and found it a plausible explanation. Haven't really tested it, thank you for doing so then...
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Very different things. The embedded annotations in PDFs are contained inside the file. The firmware is displaying the contents of the file. The annotations you make using the device are external to this. They require supporting selection in the format. Then they are stored in the database on the device, not written to the file.
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Hmm, but what restricts Kobo from letting the PDF Viewer make annotations to the file directly? As far as I can see, the “annotations view” is perfectly capable of extracting annotations made to the PDF and presenting them in the same way annotations made to epubs (which are then stored in the DB) are presented.
So the question is: What keeps Kobo from not providing annotation tools for PDFs other than the usual “PDF not meant for small screens”, “only small fraction of users would use that” etc., all the while ignoring that users are actually requesting that feature? I mean, if Amazon does it on their Kindles (albeit in a different way, annotations are strictly “to database” in their PDF viewer), why wouldn't Kobo?