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wallcraft · 06-22-2009, 01:38 PM

The only reader that can search across all its ebooks is the Kindle. The Kindle 1 and 2 don't support PDF directly (they get converted to MOBI off-line), but that has the advantage that the converted PDFs are included in the search. The larger Kindle DX supports PDFs natively, but their text is not included in the device-wide search.

So far as I know, most devices support search within the current ebook. OpenInkPot (FBReader) certainly does, but not for PDFs.

06-22-2009, 01:38 PM	#2
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	The only reader that can search across all its ebooks is the Kindle. The Kindle 1 and 2 don't support PDF directly (they get converted to MOBI off-line), but that has the advantage that the converted PDFs are included in the search. The larger Kindle DX supports PDFs natively, but their text is not included in the device-wide search. So far as I know, most devices support search within the current ebook. OpenInkPot (FBReader) certainly does, but not for PDFs.