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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I have no issues with word search on my Kobos.
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On the kobo, if I do a word search:
- I can only search book by book. I can not search all books at once, just book by book. But on the kindle if I select "all text" it shows me (and rather promptly) all books with that word by frequency order. This is really handy both for fiction series and reference books
- the search results usually show one line, a snippet which can be as little as 4 words. It does not help much to remember the context of a name or whatever. On the kindle is shows 3 or 4 lines, a much bigger snippet which is much more useful to me to remind me of what something is or who some character is.
- probably not a kobo problem, likely just the way epub handles page numbers or the formats I am using, but on the kobo on the search results the location of a word is given in percentage of a chapter, like the word is at 14% into chapter 2 or 67% of chapter 8 and so on, which is not very meaningful for references. On the kindle one gets chapter heading in bold and then exact page number which is so much more useful to me. I prefer the kindle approach.
Is there any setting, option to make kobo show bigger snippets of a word search or give a reference in page numbers? All text search seems impossible from what I researched already.
As it is, I find the kindle word search much more useful and powerful. But mileage may vary.