Improve selecting text across page boundaries
SineNomine
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Make it possible to easily select text across page boundaries on the mobile app. The Kindle App handles this well.
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Makes complete sense that this needs addressing.0
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I received a tip that you can move the text up or down using two fingers, but this is a crutch. Indeed the selection should just stretch to the next page when you move your finger, as in kindle. Much easier!0
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I used to be able to nudge the screen by scrolling with two fingers. That unfortunately stopped working a while ago, and subsequently I am now only using scroll view. It is less optimal, but quite workable.0
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Please, please, please fix this.0
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Great idea...0
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How about selecting verses and sentences by clicking a checkbox or even by naming the chapter and verse range0
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Please improve the text selection and copy on the Mobile App and then paste on other App.0
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Yes, yes, yes0
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yes, on IOS its very challenging if not impossible. it probably can be done, but its as clunky as a car about to fall apart on a back road.0
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This needs adressing.0
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apple voiceover will change the behavior of your ipad and Plus its for those with visual impairments what I will do is post a video of my screen how this works for me, and heres some notation for you concerning text selection with voiceover, note you may have to use more than one finger to do this. so I have found on ipad anyway that you can select text quite easily, with apple voiceover turned on its one finger at the top of your screen in portrait, double tap, hold for about 3 second and drag to the bottom, that will select the text, it will bring up options for highliting, note taking, copying, sharing and visual copy, if you want to select some previous text, instead of holding double tap and flick down, it'll jump back a little bit then select your text, i can not replicate this on iphone, just ipad. works quite well. https://youtu.be/_fNoyB6AXsA0
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I do have an update, under settings on my phone I was able to turn something off and now I can select text just fine. scrolling view on, swipe to highlight off, smart text selection on, automatic word lookup your choice,0
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It stinks to not been able to highlight scripture that is not visible. I always have to go into my settings and change the size of the text down to the smallest possible size so that I can see the section of scripture I want to highlight and copy. It'd be so nice if I could just start the highlighting function and drag down to the point where I wanted to stop highlighting versus having to adjust my text size.0
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Good idea! I often have problems when highlighting cross pages0
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This is incredibly aggravating. It’s even difficult in scroll mode.
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Redeeming the time (Eph.5:16+Col.4:5) ... Win 10, iOS & iPadOS 16
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@Ali Pope @Phil Gons (Faithlife) +others I'm not sure if you guys want to merge my post here with https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-mobile-app/posts/improve-selecting-text-across-page-boundaries as that one is in the "Need Your Opinion" phase. This post gives some ideas for text selection improvement. This one can be deleted if not necessary since that other one on text selection is in the Road Map (which I hope it moves in the next phase soon).
Thank you for all you do! God bless.0 -
This is especially an issue with Android, where scrolling clears your selection. I had to buy an iPhone just to make Logos more usable with selecting text, but I do miss Android!0
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This has always been a problem for me and a serious flaw of Logos. Every reading app has the ability to bookmark/select between pages, but Logos hasn't had something this elementary for years.
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"... And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength." (Ne 8.10)
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OliveTree has this right. I select a verse and one of the options in the pop-up window is a plus button to add proceeding verses to the selection.0
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Yes, that would be great!!! I is not very comfortable to highlight, if I cannot mark a longer passage on the go!0
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Yes, that would be great!!! I is not very comfortable to highlight, if I cannot mark a longer passage on the go!0
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This VERY MUCH needs improving. Consider looking at how Olive Tree does this. When you click on a verse it selects all the verse, like Logos iOS does. BUT at that point, there is an up and down arrow on the side that if I click the down arrow it selects the following verse as well, then each time I click that down button it adds a verse to the selection. If you click the up arrow it reduces the selection by a verse.0
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@Robert Kelbe Please fix this... I want to go back to Android, but can't until this issue is resolved...0
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It's incredible how even today Logos Mobile doesn't allow you to select texts larger than what is shown on the device's screen.
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"... And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength." (Ne 8.10)
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@Anderson Abreu I know, this is so frustrating0
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Even my weather app allows scrolling while highlighting text!0
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Yes, very much needed. Present function also glitchy. It would be very useful, as I like marking on the go, while listening to a book.0
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it's funny, it says need your opinion and this is over three years old. Get with it. That's my opinion. People spend thousands of dollars, yes thousands and the mobile app is like it's been designed by grade threes. The web app is phenomenal. The mobile app is pathetic considering what it could be. Do you not have a staff that works on the mobile app or is it an afterthought. Continuous scrolling when selecting text isn't rocket science. Please fix it. A lot of my use is on mobile. Rant over.0
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I came here to add this exact request! This is something that I find myself doing very often and it's very upsetting that I can't highlight and copy a big paragraph. We urgently need an improvement on this! I often go to the YouVersion Bible app to copy and share big portions of the Bible because I can't do it in Logos, just because YouVersion app has this feature working flawlessly and logos don't.0
