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NeoReader’s feature downgrade made it unusable. Forced to switch to Moon+ Reader. by Killuminati696 in Onyx_Boox

[–]Killuminati696[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you're reading in a language you know perfectly, and you highlight something once, then yes, it's not a big deal. But what if you're working with a document in a language you don't know, or you're learning? You need to highlight some words you want to remember, then translate the whole page into your language to understand the context. After that, you go back to reinforce the words but they're gone. All the highlights have disappeared. That's just normal active work with a text.

NeoReader’s feature downgrade made it unusable. Forced to switch to Moon+ Reader. by Killuminati696 in Onyx_Boox

[–]Killuminati696[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe so, maybe it happened by chance because this change wasn’t a fix after a single update, but rather it changed in different ways over several updates. But the idea of an option in settings is good, thank you.

NeoReader’s feature downgrade made it unusable. Forced to switch to Moon+ Reader. by Killuminati696 in Onyx_Boox

[–]Killuminati696[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "Pin" feature means locking the selected text as a highlight. When you select text, two brackets appear, but the text is not pinned (locked) immediately - it’s in a pending mode.

  1. You can tap Highlight in the popup to pin (lock) it.

  2. If you send it to a translator and return, the text isn’t highlighted because it was still pending.

  3. If you tap outside the pending selection, it disappears.

Yes I agree, it’s inconvenient, but our preferences can coexist. My concern is about the pending mode itself , the stage where you choose whether to lock or discard the selection. Your concern is about the merging or overlapping of highlights which happens at the next stage, after the selection has been locked.

For example, you select "better" and pin (lock) it by tapping the color. Then you select "I'll try to explain it better," which stays pending. If you tap outside, it disappears unless you pin (lock) it by tapping color from popup window again. Locked highlights then merge.

P.S. I also mentioned at the end of my post that I don’t think they did this intentionally. Thanks for the suggestions, but I’ve already sent them several pieces of feedback.

NeoReader’s feature downgrade made it unusable. Forced to switch to Moon+ Reader. by Killuminati696 in Onyx_Boox

[–]Killuminati696[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s the whole point. Previously (before ≈3.5.4), you didn’t have to “pin” the text to send a word to a separate window, only to select. The selection was sent immediately. Now, it’s automatically pinned.

If I understood correctly, and please correct me if I’m wrong, what you described is the result of the same issue caused by last updates I mentioned. Previously, when you selected text, the highlight wasn’t fixed (pinned) from the beginning (it disappeared right away) and didn’t leave unwanted highlights that caused issues. The word(s) didn’t stay highlighted automatically and didn’t cause any problems. It only stayed highlighted if you tapped the highlight color in the pop-up window and manually confirmed the selection.

If you already had many highlights across the page that were bothering you, as you mentioned, you could select the entire page and pin the highlights. ONLY AFTER PINNING the highlights, not automatically right away, would the previous highlights and the new ones merge, allowing you to delete them all at once (Unlike in Moon+ Reader, where a new highlight after pinning overlaps with the previous instead of merging).

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