Quote:
Originally Posted by droopy
Is there a faster way to write a note in an ebook on a Kobo?
On a dead-tree book, I take a pen (or pencil, if I'm feeling timid) in my hand and can easily write in the margin.
On a desktop/laptop computer, i can type at 70 WPM using all ten fingers.
On a phone, I can do voice dictation, which can be quite fast and isn't too bad for accuracy.
But on my Kobo, I have to finger-peck on the on-screen keyboard. If I go too fast on the finger-pecking, the characters don't immediately appear in my annotation. This discourages me from annotating, or from making smaller notes than I wish.
Is there a faster way to annotate on a Kobo Forma?
|
I have a problem with this, too. I used to think the solution was to open the same ebook on my iPad in the Kobo app, quickly record the annotation, then exit out of the book, then sync. Back at the kobo ereader, I'd sync and tada! But a few years back this stopped working for me. The Kobo app and the Kobo reader have different annotation databases after the first sync. It's a heck of a kludge, anyway.
You'll just have to adapt to slowing your tapping down while checking after every word so you don't get too far ahead of yourself. Fortunately, the arrow keys let you back the cursor up so you don't have to retype everything. This is the tradeoff we make for eInk technology and fantastic battery life.