Touch screen highlight problems?

Hamlet53 · 03-01-2010, 09:32 AM

Has anyone else noticed on the Sony 900 that sometimes the ability to highlight text and add notes fails for some documents when the font size is set to anything above small? I am note speaking of the problem for PDFs noted in the the manual for the device, but for EPUB books downloaded from this site. The truth is that I have only encountered it for one book so far–Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: Sherlock Holmes Omnibus v1 22 may 2009–downloaded from this site, but then I've only had the Daily Edition for about two weeks. However, for this book double tapping the page to highlight a word or place a bookmark almost always fails if the font is set above small. And when it works to call up the options box even after clicking highlight and closing the box the word is not highlighted.

SCION · 03-01-2010, 11:21 AM

I haven't encountered this problem (yet). Just tried it again with an ePub, medium and large fonts, was able to highlight, bookmark, and add note. Perhaps it just that particular book with the issue.

Hamlet53 · 03-02-2010, 04:19 PM

So I noticed the problem with quite a few ebook files and I was about to call Sony to request authorization to send back what I thought must be a defective unit. Consulting the manual I found resetting the reader as a suggestion for many problems. So I tried that and it seems to have done the trick for now.

There is an annoying problem that remains though. Links within the text do not seem to work. I am speaking of, for example, ebooks from this site where superscript numbers for footnote citations in the text are hyperlinks to a page of footnotes. Pressing the superscript numbers does not seem to do anything. Anyone else noticed this for the 900? If it is a problem it will effect how I put together the epub file I am working on now.

SCION · 03-02-2010, 04:49 PM

I'm presently reading an ePub with footnotes. I've selected many of them and they worked fine. I was able to return to where I was reading using Options / History.

03-01-2010, 09:32 AM	#1
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	Touch screen highlight problems? Has anyone else noticed on the Sony 900 that sometimes the ability to highlight text and add notes fails for some documents when the font size is set to anything above small? I am note speaking of the problem for PDFs noted in the the manual for the device, but for EPUB books downloaded from this site. The truth is that I have only encountered it for one book so far–Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: Sherlock Holmes Omnibus v1 22 may 2009–downloaded from this site, but then I've only had the Daily Edition for about two weeks. However, for this book double tapping the page to highlight a word or place a bookmark almost always fails if the font is set above small. And when it works to call up the options box even after clicking highlight and closing the box the word is not highlighted.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
PRS-650 Touch Screen problems (again)	benjaminsolah	Sony Reader	9	10-15-2010 02:22 AM
iPod Problems getting .pdb ebooks onto iPod touch	pygmymama	Apple Devices	3	01-05-2010 10:49 AM
Is the iLiad touch screen?	physics@war	iRex	4	04-13-2009 11:01 AM
Touch Screen	clewley	Lounge	10	03-18-2008 02:37 AM
cracked touch-screen	amazurok	Fictionwise eBookwise	2	02-08-2008 03:49 AM

03-01-2010, 11:21 AM	#2
SCION Séduisant Posts: 4,706 Karma: 2107018 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Texas, USA Device: Boox Note Air2+; Kobo Libra2; Kindle Scribe, Oasis3; iPad Mini6	I haven't encountered this problem (yet). Just tried it again with an ePub, medium and large fonts, was able to highlight, bookmark, and add note. Perhaps it just that particular book with the issue.

03-02-2010, 04:19 PM	#3
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	So I noticed the problem with quite a few ebook files and I was about to call Sony to request authorization to send back what I thought must be a defective unit. Consulting the manual I found resetting the reader as a suggestion for many problems. So I tried that and it seems to have done the trick for now. There is an annoying problem that remains though. Links within the text do not seem to work. I am speaking of, for example, ebooks from this site where superscript numbers for footnote citations in the text are hyperlinks to a page of footnotes. Pressing the superscript numbers does not seem to do anything. Anyone else noticed this for the 900? If it is a problem it will effect how I put together the epub file I am working on now.

03-02-2010, 04:49 PM	#4
SCION Séduisant Posts: 4,706 Karma: 2107018 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Texas, USA Device: Boox Note Air2+; Kobo Libra2; Kindle Scribe, Oasis3; iPad Mini6	I'm presently reading an ePub with footnotes. I've selected many of them and they worked fine. I was able to return to where I was reading using Options / History.

Advert