Like reading with no bookmark
The OReilly content is amazing of course. The app is kind of a running joke. I leave reading for a few minutes, come back, and then I’m put somewhere completely different in the book.
Highlighting still a multi-step process!!! Seriously?
Highlighting is probably the most frequently used activity when reading. I really don't understand why this is STILL a multi step process (in 2024!) for the Oreilly app. It's frustrating to use, and takes your mind off of the reading material simply to highlight something. Unbelievable!
Take a lessons from iOS Books app. The experience there is EXACTLY like using a physical highlighter, (drag across text, done!) easy and distracting. They even have five colors and an underline mode that remembers your selection.
And, if it’s so important to you to give a user multiple menu choices after dragging across text, why not have a **highlighting mode** which I assume most people would be in?
Take a lessons from iOS Books app. The experience there is EXACTLY like using a physical highlighter, (drag across text, done!) easy and distracting. They even have five colors and an underline mode that remembers your selection.
And, if it’s so important to you to give a user multiple menu choices after dragging across text, why not have a **highlighting mode** which I assume most people would be in?
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A Great Resource As a Student
I’m really grateful that my university grants their students’ free access to this database because this is a treasure trove of knowledge.
My only complaints is the inconsistent categorization. The way that I find content is searching by keyword subject, but the problem that I have found is that some content you would have expected to see in a different category end up showing up in a different category. Sometimes this is understandable because that is what will happen with books that feature broader content which puts the book itself in a grey area for trying to determine what makes one of that book’s covered subjects more representative of what the book is about than the other subjects that were brought up. I can understand why categorizing can be problematic; however, I still feel like people need to be aware that they may miss out on content because some of it might be listed under a different subject than they were expecting.
My only complaints is the inconsistent categorization. The way that I find content is searching by keyword subject, but the problem that I have found is that some content you would have expected to see in a different category end up showing up in a different category. Sometimes this is understandable because that is what will happen with books that feature broader content which puts the book itself in a grey area for trying to determine what makes one of that book’s covered subjects more representative of what the book is about than the other subjects that were brought up. I can understand why categorizing can be problematic; however, I still feel like people need to be aware that they may miss out on content because some of it might be listed under a different subject than they were expecting.
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