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andavane · 02-06-2009, 05:09 AM

Greetings:
I only just realised that the 'intro' section is here... at the end of the forum, or else I'd have made my first post here.
I have occasionally read ebooks over the past couple of years, and have run into issues with bookmarks; perhaps I left, thinking that if I came back later the issues would have been resolved. However I have found that some remain:

It seems hard to make a bookmark when reading a book in html format; I can't do it.

The other format I quite like is the adobe reader one as it can be read on anything, but it seems now way to have a bookmark facility. And some ebooks are only available in this format.

The mobipocket has good bookmarks, and yet when I tried this on my Palm Treo a couple of years ago, I kept getting various other problems.

Well the long and the short is, I'm ready to have another stab at the thing. I have order a Cybook Gen3, which should be here soon.

Can a more experienced eBook user than me explain something about the question of bookmarking? After all it really is the sine qua non of the reader!

btw the way I have been doing it for years when working with pdf is to keep a separate text file alongside the ebook (on pc), the highlight the portion of text where I stopped reading, and paste it in an mark it with the date, etc. It's a bit long-winded and off-putting.

Regards,
John

PS: A friend looked at my machine and said "What a pity when you turn a page, there is no experience of turning"... I think he meant that he wanted to see the bottom right corner of the page curl a bit, so there's a visualisation of the page actually turning. I wonder if anyone every thought of that.

02-06-2009, 05:09 AM	#1
andavane Zealot Posts: 120 Karma: 20 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Device: Kindle Keyboard, + Wifi, Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini, Sony PRS-T2	The Question of Bookmarks, etc Greetings: I only just realised that the 'intro' section is here... at the end of the forum, or else I'd have made my first post here. I have occasionally read ebooks over the past couple of years, and have run into issues with bookmarks; perhaps I left, thinking that if I came back later the issues would have been resolved. However I have found that some remain: It seems hard to make a bookmark when reading a book in html format; I can't do it. The other format I quite like is the adobe reader one as it can be read on anything, but it seems now way to have a bookmark facility. And some ebooks are only available in this format. The mobipocket has good bookmarks, and yet when I tried this on my Palm Treo a couple of years ago, I kept getting various other problems. Well the long and the short is, I'm ready to have another stab at the thing. I have order a Cybook Gen3, which should be here soon. Can a more experienced eBook user than me explain something about the question of bookmarking? After all it really is the sine qua non of the reader! btw the way I have been doing it for years when working with pdf is to keep a separate text file alongside the ebook (on pc), the highlight the portion of text where I stopped reading, and paste it in an mark it with the date, etc. It's a bit long-winded and off-putting. Regards, John PS: A friend looked at my machine and said "What a pity when you turn a page, there is no experience of turning"... I think he meant that he wanted to see the bottom right corner of the page curl a bit, so there's a visualisation of the page actually turning. I wonder if anyone every thought of that.