Thread: Opus "Search in text" feature
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Old 10-19-2009, 04:55 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The main difficulty is implementing a usable keyboard on a device without a touch screen. It tends to be only the touch-screen devices like the Sony PRS-600 which have search, for that reason.
Yes, but searching for words that appear on a page is trivial to implement since they already have the selector for the dictionary. I actually think that the reason might be that the MobiPocket file format is not suitable for searching.
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