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2good4hisowngood · 10-01-2022, 12:05 PM

I've just started using epubs as an alternative to pdfs, and I love it. The reader is great. There is one feature I think would increase it's usability for use-cases like mine. I use Calibre to store all of my IT books, and while working on my classwork, it is very easy to find relevant books in my Calibre library to then reference in my papers. The text search function is critical for this use case, and it works, but I often find myself on pages where I know I'm close to what I need, but having to review each instance of the phrase is time consuming.

When I use the find feature in FireFox or notepad, I can click a button on the find box to highlight all results in the page. This enables me to scroll through the entire document looking for relevant sections, rather than moving result by result, especially through dense clusters of a repeating phrase.

The implementation of this that I found most useful is when all instances of the search phrase are highlighted one color (like yellow) but the current selected result is listed in another color (light green).

10-01-2022, 12:05 PM	#1
2good4hisowngood Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2022 Device: Windows	Feature Request: Highlight all instances of Search Result I've just started using epubs as an alternative to pdfs, and I love it. The reader is great. There is one feature I think would increase it's usability for use-cases like mine. I use Calibre to store all of my IT books, and while working on my classwork, it is very easy to find relevant books in my Calibre library to then reference in my papers. The text search function is critical for this use case, and it works, but I often find myself on pages where I know I'm close to what I need, but having to review each instance of the phrase is time consuming. When I use the find feature in FireFox or notepad, I can click a button on the find box to highlight all results in the page. This enables me to scroll through the entire document looking for relevant sections, rather than moving result by result, especially through dense clusters of a repeating phrase. The implementation of this that I found most useful is when all instances of the search phrase are highlighted one color (like yellow) but the current selected result is listed in another color (light green).