Highlighting in books is not precise

Each time I try to highlight something in Books it either takes the previous string or the next string or it takes several attempts until something gets highlighted. This costs a lot of time to get this right on an iPad pro new generation. Ideally the highlighting mechanics recognises when a whole word is being highlighted instead of just half of the word or the last string left out or the punctuation included.

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Posted on Oct 23, 2024 10:52 PM

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