Search within a book?

[Cameronpaterson]

Originally Posted by oldyellr

To each his own, I suppose. Personally, I'm a relatively slow reader and read for enjoyment, not to rack up statistics or compete with others or myself. I find Reading Life an annoyance. Even though I have it turned off, that dumb window shade still keeps coming down at the most inopportune times when scrolling.

To me the Vox is also primarily a reader with bells and whistles. I do agree that the reader app should have all the features of all the readers out there so there would be no need to install any third party readers like Aldiko, or even Overdrive or Kindle Reader. I do like the fact that the Vox reader can access the built-in dictionary and doesn't need WiFi turned on like the others, but I wish the Merriam Webster wasn't the only choice. I wonder how much users outside North America like it?

Well, as you say, it's all down to personal taste. Personally I don't see the Reading Life innovations as being about competing with other users - for me they're more about making e-reading a distinct experience from reading a printed book. RL also helps to give the Kobo platform its own distinct identity. And they're not resting on their laurels either - first we had trophies and stats, then pulse, and just today there's new Facebook timeline integration. About the only bit of recent innovation from Amazon, by contrast, has been the X-ray feature on the Kindle Touch.

[Cameronpaterson]

Originally Posted by paulsalter

In the UK and i find the dictionary is fine, not had any issues with it, read about missing words, but not come across this

Highlighting a word in the reading app and getting definition could do with improving, seems to pick a random word and have to scroll around to highlight the one I wanted

True! I was quite confused by that.

[oldyellr]

To clarify the dictionary thing, currently here in Canada the spelling used is mostly British. Back in the 1960s, when we were trying to distance ourselves from the British Empire and came up with our own flag and national anthem, the American spelling was very popular in business and the press. Possibly not using the extra French letters in typesetting was part of it back then. Now we have reverted to mostly British spelling to set ourselves apart from Americans and it no longer has a colonial stigma attached. Curiously, while our newspapers now use British spelling, a lot of Canadian books printed here still use American spelling. At least the Merriam Webster dictionary recognizes both.