Aura HD Searching in a book

bookwurm70 · 07-08-2014, 09:26 AM

I've been trying to do a word search in some books using my Kobo Aura but it seems like the search results are very limited.

When I do the search it will say that there are 100+ results and give me 14 pages of results, but they are all in the first half of the book.

Is there a limited number of results that the Aura will display? Is there any way to see the rest? Or to start searching at a point later in the book, rather than just from the beginning?

I've been further in the book than my results when I began a search, but it is as if the keyword that I used is not to be found after a certain number of pages.

Ripplinger · 07-08-2014, 03:53 PM

Kobo's search only gives you the first 100 results. Yes, it's a crippling limitation in my opinion making search somewhat unusable. There have been other threads about it in the past also, and as far as I know, no way around it has been found yet. If there was even a way to search forward from a particular page and get the next 100 results would be a workaround, but it doesn't function that way. It only displays the first 100 results from the beginning of the book.

bookwurm70 · 07-08-2014, 04:32 PM

Hmm, drat! Gonna need to find an app or something to side-load them into, then.

07-08-2014, 09:26 AM	#1
bookwurm70 Addict Posts: 265 Karma: 89314 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Southern Illinois Device: eSlick, Pocketbook IQ, iPad, Kobo Aura, Kobo Aura ONE	Searching in a book I've been trying to do a word search in some books using my Kobo Aura but it seems like the search results are very limited. When I do the search it will say that there are 100+ results and give me 14 pages of results, but they are all in the first half of the book. Is there a limited number of results that the Aura will display? Is there any way to see the rest? Or to start searching at a point later in the book, rather than just from the beginning? I've been further in the book than my results when I began a search, but it is as if the keyword that I used is not to be found after a certain number of pages.

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07-08-2014, 03:53 PM	#2
Ripplinger 350 Hoarder Posts: 3,574 Karma: 8281267 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Midwest USA Device: Sony PRS-350, Kobo Glo & Glo HD, PW2	Kobo's search only gives you the first 100 results. Yes, it's a crippling limitation in my opinion making search somewhat unusable. There have been other threads about it in the past also, and as far as I know, no way around it has been found yet. If there was even a way to search forward from a particular page and get the next 100 results would be a workaround, but it doesn't function that way. It only displays the first 100 results from the beginning of the book.

07-08-2014, 04:32 PM	#3
bookwurm70 Addict Posts: 265 Karma: 89314 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Southern Illinois Device: eSlick, Pocketbook IQ, iPad, Kobo Aura, Kobo Aura ONE	Hmm, drat! Gonna need to find an app or something to side-load them into, then.

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