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Originally Posted by frostschutz
The interface even gets in the way of the word you highlighted. (Random screenshot where I selected 手紙 (letter) and the interface covers the 紙 character)
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As you can see from the screenshots, this doesn't happen on either my KA1 running FW 4.6.9995 or my original Aura running FW 3.19.5761.
I went to the same characters in the same passage of Harry Potter as you to test it out. The text boxes do not cover the selected characters for me. Instead, one of the toggles will slightly overlap one of the characters. However, the character is still easily recognizable and the toggle can be moved very easily as well.
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Originally Posted by frostschutz
And to successfully select 手紙 in the first place, it starts you out with just 手 or just 紙 (or another character off), you have to move one of those pins (one of them also covers up part of the 手 character),
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Only one character will be initially selected, and then you must move the toggles to select any other needed characters. Yes, that is the same for me on both devices. Not a huge problem for me. However, I find the KA1 on FW 4.6.9995 to be much more accurate than the Aura on FW 3.19.5761.
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Originally Posted by frostschutz
and if you end up selecting 手紙を (one surplus character) dictionary comes up with nothing.
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This is true if one is using the native Kobo Japanese dictionary. However, as you can see from the screenshots, if you use tshering's Japanese - English kanji dictionary (which I have renamed Deutsch - English dictionary for reasons listed in the thread on tshering's dictionaries), mistakenly selecting a surplus character does not interfere with obtaining the dictionary definition.
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Originally Posted by frostschutz
Ruby/Furigana also completely gets in the way of the selection.
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I haven't really found furigana to be much of an issue on either of my devices. The screenshot with 丁寧 (teinei) selected was from my Aura.
Overall, I find the Japanese reading experience to be pretty good on both my devices. There are periodically a few glitches. And the KA1 is definitely more accurate than the Aura. But perhaps the Aura would function better if I updated it to the latest FW. However, I am keeping it at its current FW 3.19.5761 because I was having issues with reading in Chinese on any later FW I tried.
Not really sure why your experience seems to be so much different. Which FW and device are you using?