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Old 11-16-2018, 02:38 AM   #3
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Device: Kobo Aura One, Kobo Forma
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
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.
I just tried it for another several times, I select a sentence, and the menu doesn't pop up(sometimes it will sometimes it won't, it is annoying) and I tap the selected text again, then it comes up. And I want to move the the handle to select more or less text, it doesn't response(100% percent), and I let my finger go, and do the movement again, it works.

For the already highlighted the text, and if I want to highlight more or less text, I long tap the highlight text, the handles will come up at the ends of the text, and I move the handle, it doesn't response(100% percent), and I let my finger go, and do the movement again, it works again.

After playing it for a while, now I get it, as long as the handles and the small pop-up menu are both on the screen, moving the handle won't work, you have to make the small pop-up window go away (long tap the handle once will do that), then let you finger go and move the handle again, it responses again.

This is really annoying. I'll try it on my Kobo Aura One later.

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