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Cat_Turbo · 01-07-2019, 06:05 PM

Hello
I’m looking forward to buy me a new e-ink reader with android. Long times ago, I’ve used an Onyx Boox M96, which unfortunately broke after half a year (screen cracked). Since then I’m using Windows tablets with an active stylus to annotate PDFs (I’m using more or less only the text highlight function).
On windows 10, there is an app called Drawboard PDF. A distinct feature of this app, which I don’t want to miss anymore, is continuous highlighting, you can choose something like a highlighting pen and then the option to highlight stays on for the whole time. You can scroll in the PDF with your fingers while the highlighting pen is mapped to the stylus of the tablet. After you’ve selected a word or a paragraph the function stays on and you can directly highlight another word without going into a menu or click ok. If no stylus is available, it is also possible to use gestures to control the scrolling while the finger act as a pen to highlight. While doing the highlight you don’t get distracted by a zoom or by an additional menu bar, you’ve got the whole screen for the text.
As there are a bunch of new e-ink readers with android on the market, I’m looking forward to buy one. But every open reader with android is only as good as the apps that are available. Until now I didn’t find an app which has this distinct feature, described above.
The following apps I’ve tried on my phone:

Moon+ Reader: text highlighting is only possible for one word/ paragraph at a time, there is no continuous highlighting, described as above.
Xodo: Support some continuous highlighting but shows every time a zoom of the highlighted text, which is, from my experience with the M96 not very e-ink friendly (refresh).
Foxit PDF: no scrolling while highlighting
WPS PDF: no highlighting at all
EZ PDF: an UI from the last century and also a zooming box while highlighting the text, used this app on the onyx M96, but it wasn’t e-ink friendly at all.
Bookari: only library system, I don’t want to import my pdf in a library, I need to open them directly from the file system
Ereader Prestigo: No highlighting at all
Adobe Reader: Working highlighting as in Xodo and EZPDF, but two big status bars blocking the reading area.

So now my question: Doesn’t android have a (please dear lord, only one

) decent PDF reading with continuous highlighting support despite having tons of apps available in the store. Or didn’t I dig deep enough

.
Thanks for any recommendation of a decent android PDF app with the described continuous highlighting function.

01-07-2019, 06:05 PM	#1
Cat_Turbo Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: PRS-T1;Onyx Boox M96 Plus (broken)	android pdf app with continuous highlighting Hello I’m looking forward to buy me a new e-ink reader with android. Long times ago, I’ve used an Onyx Boox M96, which unfortunately broke after half a year (screen cracked). Since then I’m using Windows tablets with an active stylus to annotate PDFs (I’m using more or less only the text highlight function). On windows 10, there is an app called Drawboard PDF. A distinct feature of this app, which I don’t want to miss anymore, is continuous highlighting, you can choose something like a highlighting pen and then the option to highlight stays on for the whole time. You can scroll in the PDF with your fingers while the highlighting pen is mapped to the stylus of the tablet. After you’ve selected a word or a paragraph the function stays on and you can directly highlight another word without going into a menu or click ok. If no stylus is available, it is also possible to use gestures to control the scrolling while the finger act as a pen to highlight. While doing the highlight you don’t get distracted by a zoom or by an additional menu bar, you’ve got the whole screen for the text. As there are a bunch of new e-ink readers with android on the market, I’m looking forward to buy one. But every open reader with android is only as good as the apps that are available. Until now I didn’t find an app which has this distinct feature, described above. The following apps I’ve tried on my phone: Moon+ Reader: text highlighting is only possible for one word/ paragraph at a time, there is no continuous highlighting, described as above. Xodo: Support some continuous highlighting but shows every time a zoom of the highlighted text, which is, from my experience with the M96 not very e-ink friendly (refresh). Foxit PDF: no scrolling while highlighting WPS PDF: no highlighting at all EZ PDF: an UI from the last century and also a zooming box while highlighting the text, used this app on the onyx M96, but it wasn’t e-ink friendly at all. Bookari: only library system, I don’t want to import my pdf in a library, I need to open them directly from the file system Ereader Prestigo: No highlighting at all Adobe Reader: Working highlighting as in Xodo and EZPDF, but two big status bars blocking the reading area. So now my question: Doesn’t android have a (please dear lord, only one ) decent PDF reading with continuous highlighting support despite having tons of apps available in the store. Or didn’t I dig deep enough . Thanks for any recommendation of a decent android PDF app with the described continuous highlighting function.