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To rkomar (above):
Actually, I'm still following this thread closely.
To nhedgehog:
The DB file does not actually contain the annotations. It contains the file names and locations of the annotations from epubs. That system seems to have its advantages. In the Sony and Kobo, you get the page numbers next to the annotations when you extract them with the Toxaris annotation software.
Again to nhedgehog:
There is no "forced update option to go back in firmware" in the Touch HD 631. As NASCARaddicted already noted above, you're in the wrong thread for info about the PB626, a device that uses entirely different note-taking and dictionary functions and that has no Text-to-Speech option.
As for venting spleen (this from a fellow Canadian: rkomar):
I am in regular contact with the developers at Pocketbook international. It helps that I speak Russian (although I'm a Canadian), and that some of the technical staff there read English.
Anna Cherkes of Pocketbook responded (for the third time) two days ago with the following:
"We have forwarded your feedback to the R&D department and the option to copy the notes from the device onto PC will be realized in the future updates for the device."
For those who have not read the messages carefully above: the messages here only concern the Pocketbook HD Touch 631. My purported "venting" includes the message that this device is, from a technical perspective, really the best thing on the market for philologists, except that (and this really nullifies its market value) you cannot extract the highlights and annotations. Furthermore, the technical staff at Pocketbook were seemingly entirely unaware of the issue when I first contacted them.
What I have done is to inform the people at Pocketbook, not only about the problem, but also about how the Toxaris software (for the Kobo and Sony) formats annotations in the most useful manner, and why they should provide a DB format compatible with the Toxaris annotation extractor (or create a downloadable software like it).
Pocketbook promised to fix the issue in January. As of February the 8th, the statement now reads "future updates".
So I'll let everyone know what happens. The very minute that Pocketbook fixes this, I'm buying a Touch HD 631. Technically--a great device.
FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO HELP SOLVE THIS ISSUE: I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO WRITE TO ANNE CHERKES AT POCKETBOOK AND REQUEST AN ANNOTATION EXTRACTION SOFTWARE OPTION.
Anna Cherkes <help@pocketbook-int.com>
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