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Originally Posted by Cedros
I just read this thread today, so sorry for this late response. I've used the iOS Kobo App for reading Kobo books, although not very often. Touching the center of the screen brings up a menu on the lower right-hand side. This allows you to change alignment, appearance, brightness, font,and to display page numbers. Touching three parallel lines in the upper margin will show chapters and headings. Another touch to the center of the page and the menus disappear. It works pretty much like the settings on a Kobo e-reader, as far as I can tell. The App does seem to synch with my Kobo reader.
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I, too, discovered this thread late. I agree with all your points. I use the Kobo app on my iPad (It's a gorgeous reader) and my iPhone (when stuck in line and bored of reading news or social media posts).
Every time you open the app, the menu items are shown before fading away. Touching the center of the screen bring the menu items back, just like on a Kobo eReader. On the iPad, there is a gray menu circle on the bottom right corner you can also tap to activate the menu items.
As for the dictionary, you just press and hold on a word as you do with a Kobo eReader. The definition appears at the bottom with links to Wikipedia, Google, and a full view of the dictionary entry. Selecting "Manage" allows you to select which dictionaries you wish to have access to. Fbone, perhaps your iPhone/iPad has no dictionaries installed. The Kobo app uses the system dictionaries.
You can also tap on the ? symbol in the menu items to select "Getting Around", which takes your through the brief tutorial again.
Fbone, you should give the app another go. It's one of the better eReader apps out there. It syncs page location and amount read between Kobo apps and eReaders. You might have to exit out of the book to force a sync. My only complaint is that annotations and bookmarks made in the iOS apps only sync to other iOS apps, not to my Kobo eReader. Making annotations is so much easier in the Kobo app. I truly wish Kobo would match Kindle's Whispersync in functionality.
Does that help?