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davidfor · 11-16-2018, 01:58 AM

I haven't done much highlighting on the Forma, but, just trying it now, I don't see any difference in behaviour than on the other devices. Highlighting in a kepub (either sideloaded or purchased) and the word I start on is underlined. As I move my finger, the words I move across are also underlined. When I lift my finger off the screen, selected words are still underlined and handles are drawn at the ends of the highlight that can be used to change it. I don't suppose I can see the end of the highlight as I draw it, but that is because my finger is covering it.

Grabbing the handles to adjust the highlight has always been hard. I've generally not done it as I don't need much accuracy in my highlights (mainly marking errors so I mark around it to make them easy to find). But, I don't see any difference on the Forma. If anything it seems to be slightly easier.

As I said, as far as I can tell it works exactly the same as on the other devices and exactly how I expect it to work. It is by no means perfect, but it seems to be better than on my Glo HD (the other device I have with me). And it doesn't behave any differently to the Clara HD (what I was using for most of my reading pre-Forma). I haven't tried the Aura ONE for a while as that is the device my wife uses. I'll try it over the weekend to see if it has changed somehow. I don't expect so, as there haven't been any comments here about it, and Kobo deliberately makes functions like this the same across all the devices.

11-16-2018, 01:58 AM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I haven't done much highlighting on the Forma, but, just trying it now, I don't see any difference in behaviour than on the other devices. Highlighting in a kepub (either sideloaded or purchased) and the word I start on is underlined. As I move my finger, the words I move across are also underlined. When I lift my finger off the screen, selected words are still underlined and handles are drawn at the ends of the highlight that can be used to change it. I don't suppose I can see the end of the highlight as I draw it, but that is because my finger is covering it. Grabbing the handles to adjust the highlight has always been hard. I've generally not done it as I don't need much accuracy in my highlights (mainly marking errors so I mark around it to make them easy to find). But, I don't see any difference on the Forma. If anything it seems to be slightly easier. As I said, as far as I can tell it works exactly the same as on the other devices and exactly how I expect it to work. It is by no means perfect, but it seems to be better than on my Glo HD (the other device I have with me). And it doesn't behave any differently to the Clara HD (what I was using for most of my reading pre-Forma). I haven't tried the Aura ONE for a while as that is the device my wife uses. I'll try it over the weekend to see if it has changed somehow. I don't expect so, as there haven't been any comments here about it, and Kobo deliberately makes functions like this the same across all the devices.