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Old 02-19-2017, 04:38 PM   #6
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Yes, they do. And so does Marvin, but it's entirely manual on Marvin's part for now, so, really, an unworkable and impractical long-term solution.

However, all three of these promising e-readers share the same serious flaw, when it comes to exporting annotations. I just alerted MapleRead's developer to this last night:

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  • Highlights are corrupted upon exporting them. This is a flaw shared with Marvin, Hyphen, and likely all other e-readers out there. I understand that this is very tough for app developers to get right, but there's no way around it, if it's to be done properly. Right now, highlights are corrupted in that they do not preserve basic and fundamental text formatting features such as paragraph breaks, italics or bold. I tried it with your Alice test e-book, and upon exporting a highlight from it that contains italics or multiple paragraphs, everything gets converted to plain-text and merged into a single paragraph. That's just unacceptable, if you need to deal with literature on a scholarly level, as I do.
I also alerted Marvin's Kris of this a couple of years ago, but there's been no improvement. Similarly, I drew Hyphen developer's attention to this a few months ago, and he expressed interest in fixing the flaw. If that ever happens (I know he's working on a major new version of Hyphen), that would instantly put Hyphen on a higher level in my estimation, perhaps the highest of all three of these e-readers.
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