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Originally Posted by robertpolson
Long-term Kindle user. Any tips on highlighting text? Compared to year of Kindle experience, Kobo highlighting technology sucks to the point where I may even return it.
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In my experience, doing it until you get used to it.
What happened to me was the opposite - I'd been using exclusively Kobo devices for years when I bought a Kindle Paperwhite 3 in Japan to use exclusively with Japanese books. I already had an account with Amazon.co.jp and it was on sale for 50% off, so I just figured that with everything I'd always read here on the Kindle, its interface, the dictionary, the highlighting being better (and I was going to do lots of it, considering I'm still studying Japanese) I could give it a try. Well, for the first few weeks I was about to either return it or throw it out of the window - I had great trouble highlighting stuff. It would highlight the entire sentence instead of a single word, the arrows wouldn't stop where I wanted them to and the highlighted part would just disappear when I was trying to fix that. Not to mention accuracy issues, absurd to me considering that I kept the Kindle's font at almost double the size (comparatively) and with a bigger line-spacing than what I normally use on my H2O, plus it was capacitive.
It got way better over the course of a few weeks as I figured out how to use it. Different manufacturer, different system I guess. I can now use the Kindle with ease, more or less, now that I figured out how it responds. Still can't use it as precisely as I can use the Kobo, but I figure that will come with time.
(I use KEPUBs, all sideloaded through Calibre. I've never used the Adobe renderer, I only know from reading here that it's supposed to be worse.)