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apricoto · 08-24-2020, 11:57 PM

I know that I am late to this thread. I was only recently told about, and given a link to ver 5 beta. I am using it, and am generally happy with how it works regarding annotations/highlighting. I have made a few notes of things that I feel could use improvement. Perhaps they have already been discussed. iac:

1. attempting to highlight at top of page, or tapping a footnote at top of page often opens the toolbar
2. annoyance: the X for closing the viewer is easily mistaken for the x for closing windows,eg 'browse highlights' or for closing the toolbar. not unusual to close viewer when only intending to close a window in viewer.
3.In highlight popup, unclear about difference between: mag glass (look up selection on the net) and building (lookup/search selected word)
4 when highlighting text on right side page (landscape view, 2 pages), moved cursor a bit too far to left, across page divide,and before I new it, i had highlighted 3 pages of text. had to move back to right 3 pages to get back to where I started.
5. annotations are stored in the Calibre database: I have not been able to locate the database. What do you think of making the location customizable? I keep all books in a folder on the sd card, which i can move to another computer and backup. If the annotations are located elsewhere they won't travel with sd card or be backed up.
6. in the 'browse highlights', can you add something to deliniate one highlight from the next? They currently look like they are one continuous paragraph. A dash, asterisk, extra line etc.
7.what is the intended purpose of highlight/annotation titles? the annotations are all grouped together like a paragraph, and the title is down below tool bar. Its more like the title might be an annotation of the annotation.
8. there needs to be a 'return' button. too many times I press to highlight (touch screen), then move my finger, or pull up my finger because highlighting isn't happening, or just a mistaken touching of screen, or item 4 above, and i am instantly transported to some other place in the document, often without a clear idea of where i have wound up and how to back to where I was. I have no idea why this happens, however, an always available 'return' button would take me back to where i was before I was taken to some other place in document (similar to purpose of ctrl-z, but not needing keyboard). (I know there is 'back' and 'forward' in toolbar, but they don't seem to help with this issue).

08-24-2020, 11:57 PM	#269
apricoto Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Chicago Device: HP X360 11", Win10	I know that I am late to this thread. I was only recently told about, and given a link to ver 5 beta. I am using it, and am generally happy with how it works regarding annotations/highlighting. I have made a few notes of things that I feel could use improvement. Perhaps they have already been discussed. iac: 1. attempting to highlight at top of page, or tapping a footnote at top of page often opens the toolbar 2. annoyance: the X for closing the viewer is easily mistaken for the x for closing windows,eg 'browse highlights' or for closing the toolbar. not unusual to close viewer when only intending to close a window in viewer. 3.In highlight popup, unclear about difference between: mag glass (look up selection on the net) and building (lookup/search selected word) 4 when highlighting text on right side page (landscape view, 2 pages), moved cursor a bit too far to left, across page divide,and before I new it, i had highlighted 3 pages of text. had to move back to right 3 pages to get back to where I started. 5. annotations are stored in the Calibre database: I have not been able to locate the database. What do you think of making the location customizable? I keep all books in a folder on the sd card, which i can move to another computer and backup. If the annotations are located elsewhere they won't travel with sd card or be backed up. 6. in the 'browse highlights', can you add something to deliniate one highlight from the next? They currently look like they are one continuous paragraph. A dash, asterisk, extra line etc. 7.what is the intended purpose of highlight/annotation titles? the annotations are all grouped together like a paragraph, and the title is down below tool bar. Its more like the title might be an annotation of the annotation. 8. there needs to be a 'return' button. too many times I press to highlight (touch screen), then move my finger, or pull up my finger because highlighting isn't happening, or just a mistaken touching of screen, or item 4 above, and i am instantly transported to some other place in the document, often without a clear idea of where i have wound up and how to back to where I was. I have no idea why this happens, however, an always available 'return' button would take me back to where i was before I was taken to some other place in document (similar to purpose of ctrl-z, but not needing keyboard). (I know there is 'back' and 'forward' in toolbar, but they don't seem to help with this issue).