How the colour highlights are shown in Black and White devices ?

shuvashish76 · 01-25-2025, 03:44 AM

I got the Kobo Clara Colour device. I'm thinking to replace it with Kobo Clara BW.
Can somebody show the screenshot of highlight options on KOReader on any of their B&W device?
They're disabled completely for B&W devices or shown as different shades of grey?

shuvashish76 · 02-05-2025, 12:14 AM

So the colour-highlight options are there (not disabled) just the default highlight-colour is set to "Gray" for B&W devices while for Colour devices it's "Yellow".
Not sure how to take screenshot while in that view but here is how it looks on B&W devices. (screenshot is not taken from my device)

However Kobo's default reader program "Nickel", disabled colour options for B&W devices. When you long click any text it just highlights them.

PS: Answering own question, in-case anyone coming from search engine queries...

aha · 02-21-2025, 10:49 PM

Also, on koreader if you have overlapping highlights, the overlapping part is a darker gray than the rest.

01-25-2025, 03:44 AM	#1
shuvashish76 Zealot Posts: 126 Karma: 665010 Join Date: Jan 2022 Location: India Device: Kobo Clara BW	How the colour highlights are shown in Black and White devices ? I got the Kobo Clara Colour device. I'm thinking to replace it with Kobo Clara BW. Can somebody show the screenshot of highlight options on KOReader on any of their B&W device? They're disabled completely for B&W devices or shown as different shades of grey?

02-05-2025, 12:14 AM	#2
shuvashish76 Zealot Posts: 126 Karma: 665010 Join Date: Jan 2022 Location: India Device: Kobo Clara BW	So the colour-highlight options are there (not disabled) just the default highlight-colour is set to "Gray" for B&W devices while for Colour devices it's "Yellow". Not sure how to take screenshot while in that view but here is how it looks on B&W devices. (screenshot is not taken from my device) However Kobo's default reader program "Nickel", disabled colour options for B&W devices. When you long click any text it just highlights them. PS: Answering own question, in-case anyone coming from search engine queries... Attached Thumbnails Last edited by shuvashish76; 02-05-2025 at 12:28 AM.

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aha Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 1116 Join Date: Feb 2025 Device: k3, dxg	Also, on koreader if you have overlapping highlights, the overlapping part is a darker gray than the rest.