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Even highlighting is easier and looks better in iBooks 2: It works in several colors, and rather than turning on highlighting first, readers simply hold down a finger and start dragging that finger along text to highlight.
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One noted that it was more difficult to highlight text on an iPad than in a regular book.
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The Irex also lacks a Home button, a note-taking function, any way to highlight text and a built-in dictionary.
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Add a note and use the virtual keyboard to include your comments, highlight text, scribble free form, and even add a stamp to emphasize a point.
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Readers can swipe a finger to turn a page, zoom in and out by pinching fingers together or apart or write notes on the page or highlight text with a finger or the supplied stylus.
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Once loaded with text, both the SoftBook and the Rocket EBook act as single-screen tablets that let you use simple buttons and a stylus to select titles, "turn" pages, search and highlight text, and make notes.
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One slight annoyance though comes if you just want to highlight some text for a copy and paste job, as you will have to remember to click out of the hyperwords menu before you can continue.
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Just highlight the word or passage of text in the browser window that you are interested in and then right-click it and select the Hyperwords menu to see your options.
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Along the bottom, you'll get options for adding a note or highlight, translating, searching for instances of the text throughout the book and positing it to Facebook.
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The TV advert's award-winning director Shane Meadows said he wanted to highlight the problem of emotional violence, including verbal insults and controlling behaviour such as monitoring text messages.
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