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Old 07-31-2011, 02:11 PM   #211
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Old 07-31-2011, 09:07 PM   #213
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1. Fix the page turn 'freeze until second tap' causing a double turn.

2. Collections, folders, tags, whatever.

3. Support for multi-level TOC's and/or fix hyperlink functionality.

4. Notes and highlighting in epubs.

5. The ability to zoom in on illustrations in epubs (and kepubs).

6. Word search in books.

7. Options for first line indent (right now I fix my sideloaded books with css).

8. An option to sleep with the text from the last page accessed still displayed. The space for the menu bar could be used to notify that the device is in 'sleep' mode. This way you can easily leave it on a page with a recipe while cooking or something.
WAIT!!!!! Point number 6!

Are you implying the Kobo Touch doesn't have a word search function in ebooks? This can't be true, can it?
The single most often used feature while recently reading "A Dance With Dragons" was searching. There is absolutely NO way I can remember a gazillion characters, and the glossary is nowhere near putting such information into context. Here's what I did(probably a hundred times or so):

1 - Tap on a character's name as it pops up later in the book(books)
2 - Tap on "find Previous", for example in the case of "Cersei" just to familiarize myself with whatever she was doing(or getting done to) last.
3 - Tap on "find first", for example in the case of "Hotah" to go back and see who the heck that guy was.
4 - Tap on "find next" a couple of times to get a better idea - from the context - of who "Hotah" was again.
5 - Tap on "go back" to get back to the place you started the search. There is absolutely no bookmarking involved.
6 - In case I tap a word that is contained in the selected dictionary, a fifth button. "look up" appears automatically.

A decent word search was THE great selling point for ereaders to some of my friends when I proudly demonstrated it four or five YEARS AGO on merged versions of "The Wheel of Time" or "The Sword of Truth".

The "look up" function, IMO, wasn't even such an important feature in the past, but nowadays authors seem to be getting ever more enthusiastic with the inline thesaurus of their word processors. It's kinda obnoxious. If you don't believe me, take a look at what New York Times readers are looking up!

http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011...e-fancy-words/

My ancient EBW1150 still gives me about 7-8 hours of reading on a charge, but it's got a growing blue spot on the display! It's still just the size a squashed mosquito(used to have those sometimes with paper books), but its growing!

I thought I could stick it out until the European release of the Kobo in August, but now? An ereader without a search? Likely to cost €139 equaling $200!

PLEASE tell me it ain't so, PLEASE!!
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No search function yet, other than library search. They really should have it, but I admit that I haven't missed it yet. After all, none of my paperbacks have that function either.
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No search function yet, other than library search. They really should have it, but I admit that I haven't missed it yet. After all, none of my paperbacks have that function either.
No search is just plain stupid on a digital device, whether paper has it or not is irrelevant!
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Old 07-31-2011, 11:13 PM   #216
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The battery icon could be placed beside the page number in a book so that the user can easily keep abreast of battery status without having to go to the HOME screen to check this. I have had my Touch shut down unexpectedly with the battery recharge message repeatedly because I do not have the icon showing in the book I am reading.
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No search is just plain stupid on a digital device, whether paper has it or not is irrelevant!
Well, it is on my wishlist. . .

And just to be clear, I never said that there shouldn't be a search function because real books don't have it. What I did say was that my reading experience has not suffered for the lack of it. Probably because none of my real books have such a function.

That's also why it's so far down on my list. Don't like it? Write your own and stop sniping other forumites.
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No search function yet, other than library search. They really should have it, but I admit that I haven't missed it yet. After all, none of my paperbacks have that function either.
Yah, I just downloaded the Kobo Touch Users Guide and lo'n behold, NO SEARCHING! Neither do the older model Kobo Users Guides say anything about searching your book. And you gotta admit they have had some time to implement it. I should'a downloaded those Guides months ago, but just couldn't imagine an ereader that won't even allow a search within the body of the text you are just reading!

So I did the same for Kindle, Nook, Sony and it turns out they've all had searching, like forever. Add that to the fact that my ebookwise1150 boasts of software written years ago by ETI to be used on hardware which is, after all, about TEN YEARS! old.

Since Kobo ain't made it work on THREE GENRATIONS of ereaders, what makes you so sure they'll ever make it work?

Perhaps if someone were to prove to me that there was EVER an even marginally popular ereading device out there - of ANY generation - that did NOT implement a searching feature, I might reconsider and admit I was setting my sights to high on the Kobo.
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Perhaps if someone were to prove to me that there was EVER an even marginally popular ereading device out there - of ANY generation - that did NOT implement a searching feature, I might reconsider and admit I was setting my sights to high on the Kobo.
As you ask for it so nicely, I will mention the Bookeen ereaders (Gen3, Opus). Perhaps not so popular in USA but they are in Europe. And I can tell that there is no searching feature
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Perhaps if someone were to prove to me that there was EVER an even marginally popular ereading device out there - of ANY generation - that did NOT implement a searching feature, I might reconsider and admit I was setting my sights to high on the Kobo.
The Sony 505 doesn't have search.
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As you ask for it so nicely, I will mention the Bookeen ereaders (Gen3, Opus). Perhaps not so popular in USA but they are in Europe. And I can tell that there is no searching feature
Ok! I see there are other dedicated ereaders out there that don't support searching for keywords within the book. I just can't wrap my head around it!

As it has taken such a short time to meet my challenge, I hereby humbly retract my insinuation that searching is such an important feature to ebook readers, and I apologise.
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Sorry!
I'll try to behave in future. I was really looking forward to this thing coming on the European market this month.
My eyeballs practically popped when I saw the searching flaw, but actually,I had some worries about keeping a good English dictionary on the localised device, so I periodically scanned this forum from time to time.
Obviously I didn't do it thoroughly enough, because this searching problem must have come up somewhere before.
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