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rtiangha · 10-16-2016, 10:55 PM

I just noticed that the ability to search a ZIM file (like Wikipedia) was removed, or at the very least, no longer appears in the Reading Menu. You can still open a ZIM file, but it seems like you can no longer search it, either in the ZIM file itself, or by pulling it up while inside a book. And because internal links in a ZIM file never really worked, the usefulness of having an offline copy of Wikipedia is greatly reduced, unless there's a hidden FeatureSettings .conf setting to restore that menu item like there is for enabling the BookSpecificStats menu item for every book (if so, I don't know what it is). It worked (somewhat) in 3.19 (and in 4.0; I just tested).

10-16-2016, 10:55 PM	#112
rtiangha Evangelist Posts: 495 Karma: 356531 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: 'burta, Canada Device: Kobo Glo HD	I just noticed that the ability to search a ZIM file (like Wikipedia) was removed, or at the very least, no longer appears in the Reading Menu. You can still open a ZIM file, but it seems like you can no longer search it, either in the ZIM file itself, or by pulling it up while inside a book. And because internal links in a ZIM file never really worked, the usefulness of having an offline copy of Wikipedia is greatly reduced, unless there's a hidden FeatureSettings .conf setting to restore that menu item like there is for enabling the BookSpecificStats menu item for every book (if so, I don't know what it is). It worked (somewhat) in 3.19 (and in 4.0; I just tested). Last edited by rtiangha; 10-17-2016 at 12:22 AM.