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Old 11-15-2018, 05:01 PM   #158
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Originally Posted by haertig View Post
That would be a totally useless feature for me. Maybe if someone had a bunch of reference books on their Kindle it might be useful.

Are there many cases of people who read novels searching for a word or phrase across multiple books? I can't come up with any need to do that. Please educate me. A Kindle is a very low horsepower device (computing power). That's got to be a heckuva burden on the poor thing to do all that parsing and processing. Can you turn that feature off?
I use it quite often. I've read thousands fanfics and I'd often remember a phrase from a story but I can't remember the title or author. I would normally run full text search (regex) using Notepad++ on the PC. I find it very convenient to have similar functionality on the Kindle.

Once the book is indexed, searches are super quick. Can't search a book if it's not indexed though. Understandable given the limited processing power.
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